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From: lee <lee@yagibdah.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 20:17:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9m7olyw.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9mczt1t.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> (lee@yagibdah.de's message of "Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:47:58 +0200")

lee <lee@yagibdah.de> writes:

> <wabenbau@gmail.com> writes:
>

> [...]
>>> However, I can see the BIOS and the boot manager menu, then during
>>> booting, the screen goes black and the monitor says "no signal"
>>> (probably when the nvidia module is loaded).  So I logged in blindly
>>> and started X11 and got a picture again.
>>> 
>>> The monitor info says 4k@60Hz in the BIOS and when X11 is running.  So
>>> there must be some setting which causes the graphics card to blank out
>>> on the console.
>>> 
>>> Any idea what that could be?
>>
> [...]
>
> So I need to read some documentation tomorrow ...

Does the nvidia module have any options which can specified when it is
loaded?  I haven't found anything about that in the docs.

Using "nomodeswitch" didn't help; blacklisting the module did help.
That proves that loading the module when not starting X11 makes the
screen go blank.


-- 
Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
might swallow us.  Finally, this fear has become reasonable.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-03 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-01 18:23 [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed lee
2015-09-01 21:46 ` wabenbau
2015-09-01 22:29   ` lee
2015-09-02  1:15     ` wabenbau
2015-09-29 17:58       ` lee
2015-09-29 19:13         ` wabenbau
2015-09-29 23:47           ` lee
2015-10-03 18:17             ` lee [this message]
2015-09-02  1:29     ` Fernando Rodriguez

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