Thanks John for your prompt response! you are the HERO! your suggestion worked instantly!!!
being quite new with Linux I have almost given up after several rounds of installation... I assume this bug will not change even with the stable Debian 7 release (?) - where to find out if this problem will be solved and how? best greetings and Many thanks again!!! MS 2014-04-22 14:30 GMT+03:00 John M. <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > My workaround was to (boot in recovery mode and) blacklist nouveau, as in: > > # echo 'blacklist nouveau' > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf > > After that, reboot in normal mode. > > It seems that the 3.13.x kernel is trying to load drivers for both the > Intel and NVIDIA cards, and there's a BIOS-related bug that makes the > NVIDIA card misbehave when on Linux. Previous versions of the kernel > didn't do that. > > I hope that helps. > > -- > John. > > > > > On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 14:13 +0300, Mr Smith wrote: > > I found that you had a very similar problem as myself: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741584 > > I have bought new Thinkpad T440p and aimed to install dualboot Win7/Debian > testing. > > I have tried the Debian alpha-installer amd64 from 19 March 2014 but the > system does not boot correctly (no GUI; login not reacting etc) > > Is there any workaround? > > Any help would be appreciated very much! > > MS > >
