Bug 576474

Summary: nv[8600 GT] Black screen after installation
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: jesse de wit <deheld999>
Component: X.OrgAssignee: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: Joachim.Reichelt, pilotgi
Version: Milestone 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: openSUSE 11.3   
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Attachments: rc1 "nomodeset"

Description jesse de wit 2010-02-03 11:38:56 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)

After installation of openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1, it asks me to reboot. When I do, I get a black screen after the restart and it's stuck on the black screen. I tested this on 5 different computers, and the bug was there on all 5 computers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1

2.Reboot after the installation

3.Notice the black screen

Actual Results:  
Black screen


Expected Results:  
Boot into openSUSE


Major
Comment 1 Joachim Reichelt 2010-02-06 20:03:14 UTC 
Same here on X86_64.
I got a distorted screen.
I saw 2..3 lines of text, starting with
doing a fast boot
....

Numlock is working still.
At now I cannot find my serial cable to get konsole output :-;
Comment 2 Jiri Srain 2010-02-08 10:32:13 UTC 
Could you, please, specify "After installation"? Which is the last screen you can see?
Comment 3 kevin vandeventer 2010-02-21 21:06:19 UTC 
I just installed Milestone 2 x86_64 from the dvd. After the first part of the install with auto configuration (all normal), my computer rebooted to a black screen with a white cursor. I did ctrl>alt>F1 and it took me to a text screen where the last output was ***Starting YaST2*** and a blinking cursor. Nothing else happened, so I did ctrl>C and it looked to be completing the boot process and gave me a login prompt.

I couldn't log in as normal user as none had been created. I logged in as root and checked 'hwinfo --gfxcard and my nvidia 8600GTS was listed using the nv driver. I tried sax2 -r -m 0=vesa but sax2 just hung up.

I then switched to text install and started over. I was able to get to the configuration part of the install that way, which finished with no problems. When I started X, I got another black screen with a white cursor.

This time the sax2 command worked and got me to the gui. Everything seems normal after that.
Comment 4 Jiri Srain 2010-02-22 11:47:12 UTC 
OK, then an X bug, not bootloader.
Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2010-02-22 11:57:52 UTC 
Jesse, would it be possible to provide the required information according
to our HOWTO

  http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:X

for reporting X11 related bugs? Please set the Status back to
ASSIGNED after providing all the required information. Thanks.
Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2010-02-25 13:19:55 UTC 
Another duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 577140 ***
Comment 7 Arnold Panzenboeck 2010-06-20 12:00:20 UTC 
Created attachment 370341 [details]
rc1 "nomodeset"
Comment 8 Stefan Dirsch 2010-06-20 19:15:11 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> Created an attachment (id=370341) [details]
> rc1 "nomodeset"

Logfile for ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series, but this bugreport is abut NVIDA 8600 GT.