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[Xavier Hallade <xh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's that I've made, and modprobe i915 modeset=1 ends to the same blank screen. (And syslog ends again before any clue could be written)
I'm recompiling the kernel with your .config but I doubt that it will make a difference.


----- Message d'origine -----
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Xavier Hallade <xh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Wow, that is quite unexpected.
>
> > 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.
>
> Can you boot with nomodeset on the kernel command line?
>
> If you can get to a prompt that way, you can presumably find out which
> module is blowing up -- try
>
> rmmod i915
> modprobe i915 modeset=1
>
> to re-load the Intel driver with mode setting, and similarly with
> nouveau instead of i915 for the nVidia one.
>
>
> Chris