From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754302AbZDFWQl (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:16:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753027AbZDFWQb (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:16:31 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:56677 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751642AbZDFWQb (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:16:31 -0400 Message-ID: <49DA7F39.7090607@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:16:25 -0400 From: Brian Maly User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: justinmattock@gmail.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: black screen with 2.6.29 on new imac Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The 2.6.27 kernel had problems remapping EFI runtime on apple. That was fixed in 2.6.29-rc8. The 2.6.27 kernel will not boot on this hardware, it was not an X related issue. You might try nvidiafb instead of efifb driver and see if that makes a difference. Im not sure if the X problem is related to the kernel. I have not tackled the X issues yet. Hope it helps. Brian