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calc0000

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Registered: 2011-02-06

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Udev Issues

Hi all,

First, a disclaimer: I believe that this subject does not necessarily fit in this subforum, and not even in the Arch Linux specific forum.  As such, I certainly won't mind if someone points me towards some other place where my question would more appropriately fit.

Here's the issue:

I own an HP Envy 14-1160se (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042E … ss_product).  One of the first things I tried was to boot from the Ubuntu Live CD.  This wouldn't work however, and would just go to a nonresponsive black screen right after the ISOLINUX messages.  So I gave up on Linux for a while, and recently tried to boot into Arch (which I have running in a VM).  Arch was a bit more verbose when starting up, so I could see that the nonresponsive black screen came up right after the step "Waiting for Udev uevents to be processed".  This leads me to believe that Udev is not able to detect some of my hardware, hence the black screen.

I've tried to Google this issue, and I can't find anything.  Any help will be appreciated.

-EWF

lagagnon

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Re: Udev Issues

Try passing the "nomodeset" parameter to the kernel line on the next boot and see if that works.

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calc0000

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Registered: 2011-02-06

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Re: Udev Issues

Try passing the "nomodeset" parameter to the kernel line on the next boot and see if that works.

Thanks for the quick reply.  I'll try this tomorrow (I seem to have forgotten a blank CD and my system is all of a sudden reluctant to boot USB drives).

calc0000

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Registered: 2011-02-06

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Re: Udev Issues

Cool, that worked.  Thanks a lot :-P.

Now a second question.  What changes now that this parameter is there?  As in, if I were to install Arch to my HD and put the parameter on the kernel line, would some things not work?

Edit:  None of the network interfaces work after setting nomodeset (which is to be expected I guess?), so now I would like to know how to enable the devices that lspci lists.

Edit 2: Ouput of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5600 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 6000 Series (rev 35)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 05)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 05)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 05)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 05)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 05)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 05)

Last edited by calc0000 (2011-02-07 19:29:11)