Re: Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-16 Thread Alex
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/16/2018 09:05 AM, Alex wrote: >> >> Hi all, this appears to be a problem with the latest kernels and >> Radeon cards (at least). Adding 'nomodeset' to the kernel command-line >> fixes it. > > What video device do you have? Look in the ou

Re: Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/16/2018 09:05 AM, Alex wrote: Hi all, this appears to be a problem with the latest kernels and Radeon cards (at least). Adding 'nomodeset' to the kernel command-line fixes it. What video device do you have? Look in the output of "lspci" for a line containing "VGA".

Re: Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-16 Thread Alex
Hi all, this appears to be a problem with the latest kernels and Radeon cards (at least). Adding 'nomodeset' to the kernel command-line fixes it. Has anyone else experienced this where the screen goes blank shortly after booting and is completely unresponsive? On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:10 PM, E

Re: Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/13/18 10:47, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 06/13/18 04:45, Alex wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I have a fedora27 system on an older x86_64 machine and when booting >>> the latest kernel (I believe it was just released today) as well as >>> the previous tw

Re: Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-12 Thread Alex
Hi, On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/13/18 04:45, Alex wrote: >> Hi, >> I have a fedora27 system on an older x86_64 machine and when booting >> the latest kernel (I believe it was just released today) as well as >> the previous two, the display goes dark and becomes unre

Re: Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
No.  During boot, on the main session shows what is transpiring, but one of the other screens shows all the messages. On 06/12/2018 06:00 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/12/2018 02:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Is it to get the log session or is it F6? What log session?  Are you thinking of

Re: Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/13/18 04:45, Alex wrote: > Hi, > I have a fedora27 system on an older x86_64 machine and when booting > the latest kernel (I believe it was just released today) as well as > the previous two, the display goes dark and becomes unresponsive. > > I've booted into the rescue kernel (an older 3.14

Re: Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/12/2018 02:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Is it to get the log session or is it F6? What log session? Are you thinking of the installer? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.

Re: Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Is it to get the log session or is it F6? On 06/12/2018 05:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/12/2018 01:58 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I should add that I tried to boot into runlevel 3 and it made no difference. How do I determine at what point it went to a black screen and just stopped booting? Can y

Re: Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/12/2018 01:58 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I should add that I tried to boot into runlevel 3 and it made no difference. How do I determine at what point it went to a black screen and just stopped booting? Can you access it remotely using ssh? You could try adding the "nomodeset" parameter to the k

Re: Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-12 Thread Alex
Hi, I should add that I tried to boot into runlevel 3 and it made no difference. How do I determine at what point it went to a black screen and just stopped booting? I also noticed there's a packagekit core dump, but is that enough to prevent it from booting? On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Alex

Screen goes dark when booting latest kernel

2018-06-12 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a fedora27 system on an older x86_64 machine and when booting the latest kernel (I believe it was just released today) as well as the previous two, the display goes dark and becomes unresponsive. I've booted into the rescue kernel (an older 3.14 from fc21) to get it back online. $ uname