-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/13 20:48, Frank Griffin wrote: > On 04/08/2013 02:41 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: >> 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. >> >> > Let me get this straight. You ran XFdrake for VESA chrooted to > your root partition, got a decent test, and the real boot *still* > screws up ? Weird. > Yes, exactly that.
> If you follow the process I gave, you should be able to start the > network from within the chroot (provided you were able to start it > from the rescue boot), or else it should already be up. You should > then be able to run urpmi from within the chroot to install the > firmware packages from nonfree. > > You'll need at least kernel-firmware-nonfree. Here's what else is > there: > > [root@ftgme2 ftg]# cd /mnt/cauldron/x86_64/media/nonfree/release > [root@ftgme2 release]# ls *firm* > atmel-firmware-1.3-5.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm > bluez-firmware-1.2-9.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm > ipw2100-firmware-1.3-5.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm > ipw2200-firmware-3.1-3.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm > ivtv-firmware-20080701-1.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm > kernel-firmware-nonfree-20130307-1.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm > radeon-firmware-20120322-5.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm > ralink-firmware-20130307-1.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm > rtlwifi-firmware-20130307-1.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm > speedtouch-firmware-0.1-10.mga3.nonfree.noarch.rpm > > If that doesn't work, then it sounds like your TTY configuration > is screwed, and if that's the case, I'm tapped out. Colin would > probably be the best one to ask what controls getty under systemd > and how it's configured. I'll try to get these, though in the light of what I saw a few minutes ago (see reply to David) I'm not sure that this is going to work. Anne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFj2fwACgkQj93fyh4cnBd0NgCffE7eSBv4MOTORIIgiOazkaq5 0HcAmQGJcYh2pKTwOBIyS1Syk4py0YpT =oh3Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
