[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1402386] Re: New kernel causes black screen after login

2014-12-14 Thread Joshua Wiedekopf
Interestingly, I was able to resolve this issue on 3.13.0-43-generic (eOS Freya) by installing the current AMD proprietary driver, version 14.12 in tty1 which I was - curiously - able to access when basically hammering the keyboard as soon as the OS logo showed up. This started for me by issuing

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1402386] Re: New kernel causes black screen after login

2014-12-14 Thread Joshua Wiedekopf
This also affects me on Xubuntu 14.04.1 and Elementary OS 0.3 Beta 1. I'll attach my lshw output and will try to generate a proper set of logs tomorrow. ** Attachment added: lshw.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1402386/+attachment/4281153/+files/lshw.html -- You

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1402386] Re: New kernel causes black screen after login

2014-12-14 Thread Joshua Wiedekopf
True, especially because installing fglrx is sometimes quite a pain and not really an option for many out there, as you pointed out. I just checked in the kernel.org bugtracker and it appears that this is actually a known bug (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88481). This bug was,

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1402386] Re: New kernel causes black screen after login

2014-12-14 Thread Joshua Wiedekopf
Tommy, if you did not install fglrx under 3.13.0-43, could you perhaps try to boot using the new kernel with radeon.runpm=0 appended to the GRUB command line? According to this [1] bug report this might work. I can't really do that because uninstalling fglrx is too unreliable.