black screen after upgrade for 2nd laptop

ironwiller · 2009-12-31 15:41:01

hi i ve update 2 laptops that i have.in both of them i have black screen after rebooting. cant do anything cause im not able to go to console mode. what should i do? ty in advanced

Last edited by ironwiller (2010-01-03 15:25:15)

shacristo · 2009-12-31 15:45:29

If you have it booting into X then when you boot try editing the boot entry and change to runlevel 3 by adding a 3 at the end of the kernel line. See if that gets you to a console.

ironwiller · 2009-12-31 15:54:51

shacristo wrote:

If you have it booting into X then when you boot try editing the boot entry and change to runlevel 3 by adding a 3 at the end of the kernel line. See if that gets you to a console.

nope did it same thing... specific did "kernel .... ro vga=773 3"
nada

now what?

Last edited by ironwiller (2009-12-31 15:58:28)

shacristo · 2009-12-31 16:00:25

Well if it is an X problem as i suspect you'll want to take a look /var/log/Xorg.0.log If it doesn't show any problems you'll need to take a look at your X setup (config file, video card, etc).

ironwiller · 2009-12-31 16:01:55

shacristo wrote:

Well if it is an X problem as i suspect you'll want to take a look /var/log/Xorg.0.log If it doesn't show any problems you'll need to take a look at your X setup (config file, video card, etc).

i cannot access the above...how can i do changes?

shacristo · 2009-12-31 16:11:25

Sorry, i missed that part about you still not getting to console... at what point are you getting the black screen? Is it right after grub or do you still see some of the boot messages?

kimjine · 2009-12-31 16:15:33

I experienced the black screen after updating my laptop. In my case, my laptop became black at loading modules. I guess, madwifi module made a trouble. So, I installed the last kernel and madwifi. You may find how to do that: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics

ironwiller · 2009-12-31 16:18:47

kimjine wrote:

I experienced the black screen after updating my laptop. In my case, my laptop became black at loading modules. I guess, madwifi module made a trouble. So, I installed the last kernel and madwifi. You may find how to do that: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics

same here.... i ll check wiki and report result later ty both

danthux · 2009-12-31 16:31:50

me pasó algo similar pero ya lo solucioné, revisar esto: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87725

firecat53 · 2009-12-31 17:30:24

@ironwiller: also try removing the vga=773 from your grub kernel line. If you have, for example, an intel video card, those need to be removed for KMS to work properly.

bostonvaulter · 2009-12-31 19:58:20

I'm getting this exact same issue after upgrading to kernel 2.6.32. My hunch is that it is related to this feature of the new kernel "- changed intel kms enabled by default". I know it is not an Xorg problem because my computer just boots into a terminal and I run startx manually.

http://www.archlinux.org/news/477/

I do not have a vga=xxx line in my grub config, but I do have a i915.modeset=1, removing it did not help, but setting it to 0 seems to work. Ironwiller, maybe you should try setting it to 0.

ironwiller · 2009-12-31 23:30:14

firecat53 wrote:

@ironwiller: also try removing the vga=773 from your grub kernel line. If you have, for example, an intel video card, those need to be removed for KMS to work properly.

didnt work same thing stops and goes black screen when it says loading modules...

ironwiller · 2009-12-31 23:31:35

bostonvaulter wrote:

I'm getting this exact same issue after upgrading to kernel 2.6.32. My hunch is that it is related to this feature of the new kernel "- changed intel kms enabled by default". I know it is not an Xorg problem because my computer just boots into a terminal and I run startx manually.
http://www.archlinux.org/news/477/
I do not have a vga=xxx line in my grub config, but I do have a i915.modeset=1, removing it did not help, but setting it to 0 seems to work. Ironwiller, maybe you should try setting it to 0.

nope that either... went to black screen and after it went off! alone

ironwiller · 2010-01-01 01:00:22

ironwiller wrote:

kimjine wrote:
I experienced the black screen after updating my laptop. In my case, my laptop became black at loading modules. I guess, madwifi module made a trouble. So, I installed the last kernel and madwifi. You may find how to do that: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics
same here.... i ll check wiki and report result later ty both

ok did it on first worked fine...i kk inform also for the second...the problem to this was only the kernel

Ghost1227 · 2010-01-01 01:15:20

If you have solved your problem, please mark the thread as [solved].

ironwiller · 2010-01-03 15:26:45

grrr... at the first laptop everything ok...at the second laptop did the same procedure but at the end the problem remains....still have the black screen...

the first had intel
the second laptop has ati. followed the procedure as it says at : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI

nada....help!

AtlanticVoyager · 2010-01-11 10:24:16

I also have a black screen after doing a system upgrade last night. I have been away over Christmas & New Year, so there were 54 packages to upgrade, including xorg-server, new kernel and hal.
I installed them all and then disaster.
Now when I try to boot into Arch the start-up screen gives messages up to "udev populating .................." and then the screen goes blank and nothing more happens. I cannot boot to a command prompt. I am completely stymied. I don't want to have to reinstall Arch again. What can I do?
I can look into Arch from my Debian partition. Arch's /dev has just 3 devices: console, null and zero. Where have all the others gone? What can be done? What has gone wrong? Help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Daan · 2010-01-11 15:45:53

well, workaround for this problem can be found here - http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=680381

This is kernel modesetting and it's expected with 2.6.32 (where it's enabled my default for Intel chips). But if the resolution is wrong for your monitor, that's a bug. To work around it, you can pass the "nomodeset" option to the kernel.

if you can't access the console, it's beacuse you have init 5 runlevel by default OR you have specified desktop manager (kdm/gdm) in your /etc/rc.conf deamons field - in order to bring your login screen (or X server) automatically up.

try rebooting your PC and in the grub menu press "e".
do something like this..

kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/3566aaa5-57ec-4a5a-a4e0-e7c272e87713 init=/bin/bash ro

...which will boot directly into the root shell.

than you have to remount your filesystem with mount -o remount,rw / because by default it's in the readonly mode.

and now you should be able to edit all of your configuration files as the mentioned workaround says:

kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/3566aaa5-57ec-4a5a-a4e0-e7c272e87713 nomodeset ro

(in /boot/grub/menu.lst ... optionally you can change your runlevel or remove desktop managers from /etc/rc.conf)

after those changes just reboot your machine and you will be OK.

AtlanticVoyager · 2010-01-11 20:05:26

Thankyou Daan for those clear instructions. The instruction "nomodeset" on the kernel line did the trick.
For me it was easier than that, because the bootloader I use is GRUB on my Debian partition, so in Debian I just had to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Thanks again.
AtlanticVoyager

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black screen after upgrade for 2nd laptop

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