Re: Dell video dies when booting 2.26.32.[78].

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun Feb 14 2010 - 18:08:10 EST


On Sunday 14 February 2010, David Ronis wrote:
> I just upgraded the kernel on a 2.6.32.3 box to 2.6.32.8. When I
> rebooted, I get the usual lilo prompt, and I select 2.6.32.8. Things
> display properly for the first second or so of the boot, but then the
> screen goes blank (worse, the power light started blinking which means
> that the connection to the video card is dead). The boot is still
> running. This is a DELL running slackware 13.0. It's probably not
> relevant, but even in 2.6.32.3 X messes up resetting the video mode when
> I exit (basically the fonts are too small).
>
> I don't subscribe to this list and would appreciated a CC of any
> response.

I have created a Bugzilla entry at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15305
for your report.

Rafael
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