Re: latest kernel boots to a blank screen

On 03/23/2010 01:52 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote:
You must blacklist nouveau in the edit /etc/grub.conf and add the
following to the end of the line(s) starting with 'kernel':

rdblacklist=nouveau



Before using the driver, you need to lower your system protection so
SElinux doesn't prevent the driver to load.

setsebool -P allow_execstack on


http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-205aab6f190d363e3915c0fa2e0681fc392a
aeb6


Make sure the kernel extensions are intalled with the Nvidia Driver

That's it

Michael Miles

On 03/23/2010 09:52 AM, Kevin Kempter wrote:

Hi all;

I've updated to the latest kernel and it boots to a blank screen, nvidia
does not start.

Here's what I have installed:

[/root]
root@Issac # rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort
abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.0.8-2.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64
kernel-firmware-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.noarch
kernel-headers-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64

[/root]
root@Issac # rpm -qa | grep nvidia | sort
akmod-nvidia-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64-190.53-1.fc12.4.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64-190.53-3.fc12.x86_64
nvidia-settings-1.0-3.4.fc12.x86_64
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-2.fc12.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-190.53-4.fc12.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-190.53-4.fc12.x86_64


f I boot into the 2.6.31.12 kernel all is fine.

Any help, advice, thoughts?


Thanks in advance


I did the following but still no joy:

changed my /etc/grub.conf file to have the rdblacklist=nouveau :

root@Issac # cat /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda1
# initrd /boot/initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 ro
root=UUID=91673aa6-9636-4490-af4e-3c79a684a2d9 nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
rdblacklist=nouveau
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64 ro
root=UUID=91673aa6-9636-4490-af4e-3c79a684a2d9 nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64 ro
root=UUID=91673aa6-9636-4490-af4e-3c79a684a2d9 nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.12-174.2.19.fc12.x86_64.img

> Before using the driver, you need to lower your system protection so

SElinux doesn't prevent the driver to load.

setsebool -P allow_execstack on

I have SE-Linux disabled


Make sure the kernel extensions are intalled with the Nvidia Driver

not sure what this means, are you referring to the kmod-nvidia packages? If so
I do have 'em installed - see my listing above.


Am I missing something else? I still boot to a blank screen.

Thanks in advance

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
# initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
rdblacklist=nouveau
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
rdblacklist=nouveau
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
rdblacklist=nouveau
initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.img

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