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[Xavier Hallade <xh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just made a fresh install of archlinux and compiled the 2.6.34-rc3 and
I have absolutely the same issue as under debian.
The screen goes black, the fan becomes crazy and absolutely nothing is
logged !
I tried to load the module in the initrd, during boot or even after, it
changes nothing.


2010/4/7 Chris Cannam <cannam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Xavier Hallade <xh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have quite the same power consumption using directly the nvidia.
> > I tried to boot EFI application in order to access bios too. I managed to
> > display the grub_rescue prompt one time, booting from an usb key after
> > having disconnected the hdd and optical drive, but I had an error about
> the
> > filesystem.
>
> I couldn't get the EFI application to be picked up at all, with any of
> quite a number of USB keys and no hard drive (my machine has no
> optical drive).  But maybe I missed something.  It's perhaps no bad
> thing anyway; better to use the stock firmware if it can be done.
>
> > I've tried 2.6.34-rc3 and 2.6.34-rc3-git5 on debian but it doesn't work
> for
> > me. I have a kernel panic with i915.modeset=0 and a black screen + system
> > freeze otherwise. Did you made secial edits to the .config ? I have taken
> > mine from debian 2.6.33 and only activate vga_switcheroo.
>
> Mm, I had thought it was just a "fixed" kernel version; apparently I
> must have been lucky.  I just based it on the default Arch Linux
> config.  You can find it here:
> http://all-day-breakfast.com/m/config-20100407.gz -- I'd be interested
> in knowing if you manage to spot any difference that actually makes a
> difference.
>
>
> Chris
>