> From: Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> >On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:31 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: >> As the system starts to boot-up, it switches like it is going to start >> X - changing a video mode somehow. I don't have xdm in the runlevels >> yet, so it can't be starting XDM at all.This seems to happen right >> after udevd is started, while it waiting on the udev events. The system >> then just shuts off (power remain on - fans are still on, but monitors >> are off, and nothing responds, etc.) , and it never completes boot-up. > >Do you have another computer you can use to test if it is alive with ping >or SSH? This is occurring around the point at which KMS kicks in, you may >be just losing your display but still have an otherwise working system.
Yes SSH is enabled; no I can't SSH into it. It seems to be completely dead. >Try adding nomodeset (or intel.modeset=0) to your kernel boot parameters >to disable KMS. Ok. Setting "nomodeset" works. However, if I understand the nouveau driver correctly then that won't work for using the nouveau driver as it requires KMS. Digging a little deeper into the nouveau driver and KMS[1], I discovered that I probably need to have CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING set in the kernel config as well - which it wasn't. So that probably explains what was happening as CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE was set, so there may have been two drivers competing for fb0. Now off to build a new kernel... Thanks, Ben [1]http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting
