Package: cdrom Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Hi. As per title, my monitor's EDID is not read correctly, and this leads to very bad things on many linux distros. The debian live cd presents a flashing grey screen instead of the desktop. Text login works (ctrl+alt+f1), but is not displayed. Trying to launch in failsafe mode is even worse. The machine hangs with flashing scroll-lock and caps-lock lights. It's worth noting that WinXP on the same machine can use the monitor just fine.
This bug is not specific to Debian (Fedora, Ubuntu and Sabayon all have certain issues) I have filed a bug with UbuntuBugs, and I have a thread at Ubuntuforums about the issue. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/read-edid/+bug/991068 ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1981935 If you'd like specific debian generated logs (rather than the Ubuntu ones available in the above links, I can get ssh installed on a live CD boot and get to them remotely (submitting this report from there now), or if you need me to install it to the hard disk (assuming it's possible), I'm happy to do so. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120520165747.3433.22572.reportbug@localhost
