From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Babar Haq" Subject: Re: blank screen FUJITSU LIFEBOOK S760 Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 09:31:50 -0400 Message-ID: <20120507133150.17940@gmx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailout-us.gmx.com (mailout-us.gmx.com [74.208.5.67]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0FFF9E7F2 for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 06:31:51 -0700 (PDT) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" , intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org Hi Alexander, > One obvious difference is that Ubuntu and Fedora (who has a duplicate > bug) use Plymouth, while Gentoo doesn't. To test the theory, could you > please remove the "splash vt.handoff=7" parameters from the kernel > command line? Tried removing that still boots to a blank screen. Only way to get a grpahical desktop is to have nomodeset. Thanks for your reply. Regards, -- Babar Haq