Bug 16429

Summary:	Live-DVD, 64 bit (and probably 32bit) provides black screen after X starts
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Thomas Spuhler <thomas>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	5	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	live-DVD	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	lspcidrake

Description Thomas Spuhler 2015-07-21 01:25:49 CEST

Description of problem:
Live-DVD, 64 bit (and probably 32bit) provides black screen after X starts

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mga5 final

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start PC with DVD installed
2.Go through the complete boot process
3.When the kde desktop should show b, the desktop remains black.
This uses the NVIDIA driver. I used opensuse 13.2 and they use the nouveaux drive and it works.
for hardware see attachment


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Thomas Spuhler 2015-07-21 01:26:37 CEST

Created attachment 6860 [details]
lspcidrake

Comment 2 Sander Lepik 2015-07-21 09:43:25 CEST

Did you try to use the xdriver= option to force it to use nouveau?

Some examples here:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_Errata#Computers_with_hybrid_graphics

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2016-04-24 19:13:29 CEST

(In reply to Sander Lepik from comment #2)
> Did you try to use the xdriver= option to force it to use nouveau?
> 
> Some examples here:
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_Errata#Computers_with_hybrid_graphics

@ Thomas

Did you?

We'll pobably move to nouveau for the Mga6 Live isos, see
http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-qa/2016/mageia-qa.2016-04-21-19.10.log.html

19:50:47 <tmb> there is another thing that debian has pointed out... we should probably stop providing prebuilt proprietary drivers as they are considered violating GPL
19:51:23 <tmb> meaning we can only provide dkms source packages...

19:59:13 <Akien> tmb: That means that for live ISOs we'd need to go either with the libre drivers, or build the dkms modules when booting the live environment?
19:59:55 <tmb> Akien, libre drivers only... compiling stuff during live boot is _way_ too painful

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2016-07-03 06:24:02 CEST

Still no reply to comment #2, closing as OLD

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD