-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/13 18:28, Frank Griffin wrote: > On 04/08/2013 12:52 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: >> Something very odd is happening, indeed. Remember this was a >> functioning system before I did the updates. >> >> Rebooting, nothing has changed. I get grub, lots of disk >> activity led flickering, but no output to the screen, with or >> without Esc. I can boot into Safe moade, which lands me in >> Rescue Mode - but I haven't a clue what to do next. >> >> > If you don't even get text mode, this sounds like the old problem > of radeon drivers which require nonfree firmware not having the > firmware available. There was a long stretch where, if you had > such a card, you needed to install with the x11 vesa driver, boot, > install the firmware, and then use XFdrake to switch to the radeon > driver. > > Do you have a card that uses the radeon driver ? If so, did you > enable nonfree during the upgrade ? > > You can try the following: > > 1) Boot the rescue system 2) drvinst 3) mount your root as /mnt 4) > do a "mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev 5) do a "chroot /mnt" 6) do a > "mount -t proc none /proc" 7) do a "mount -t sysfs none /sys" 8) do > "XFdrake" 9) choose the x11 VESA or VGA driver (way down at bottom > of list) 10) reboot and see if TTY mode now works > > If it does, then add nonfree as a urpmi repository and install the > nonfree radeon firmware package. Then run XFdrake in the real > system to set yourself back to the radeon driver that XFdrake > should default to. > > If you're not using radeon, you may want to do (1) - (10) anyway > just to see if your system works with the basic driver.
No, it doesn't. When I ran XFdrake the test did display colours, though at a resolution I wouldn't want to work with :-) However, on reboot I still have a backlit black screen. I'm sure you are on the right track. It's not radeon, though, it's Intel 810 and later. I see that listed in XFdrake, but if I try to use it I'm told that there are no screens. Not sure what that means, though. When booting into rescue, I saw several items listed as "Intel Corporation:NM10/ICH7 Family" which sounds right to me. So - I need Intel drivers (and firmware). Can I use the same rescue processes to get the Internet working so that I can download them? Odd, though, that even VESA didn't work. Anne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFjD0YACgkQj93fyh4cnBdK/QCfcK0zbk70QoyCrn1TID+OCmLy oiMAn03GaoFmsCIZP4xwfK1NS1bleEQp =zWqb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----