[arch-general] Linux-3.7.3-1-i686 blank screen

[Leonid Isaev]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:07:56 +0000
Whiskers <catwheezel at operamail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:25:45 +0100 Karol Babioch <karol at babioch.de> wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Am 22.01.2013 18:34, schrieb Whiskers:
> >> An 'unconfirmed' bug is listed at <https://bugs.archlinux.org/> but this
> >> seems to relate to vlc segfaulting with the new kernel, so I don't know
> >> if that's the same problem affecting me.
> >
> >No, that's almost certainly another issue.
> >
> >You may want to try 3.7.4-1 from testing. If that doesn't fix your
> >issue, you are probably best off to contact upstream directly. With
> >Linux 3.7 there was quite some restructuring of the graphics stack going
> >on, so it may well be that in some cases it breaks things.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Karol Babioch
> >
> 
> 
> I'm using the Nouveau video driver with an old laptop.  As Linux-3.6.11-1
> seems to be stable for me, I'll wait for the next kernel version to reach
> the core repository.  

If you're talking about 3.7.4, then it's unlikely to fix your issue, because
there are only radeon fixes in the changelog
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.7.4.

> 
> I'll also try to work out how to have the previous kernel still available
> to Grub-legacy after the next kernel upgrade.
> 
> For the record, this is what my video hardware says it is:
> 
> $ lspci | grep VGA
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV31M [GeForce FX
> Go5600] (rev a1)
> 



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