[conspire] new laptop Fedora 13 with NVIDIA graphics card - yum update - now only blank screen

[Ehud Kaldor]

and one more thing - if you are not even seeing the bios and boot messages,
it might be that the screen has gone bad. i would connect the VGA port to
another screen and see if shows anything.

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Mark Weisler
<mark at weisler-saratoga-ca.us>wrote:

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> Darlene Wallach wrote:
> > Ehud,
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Ehud Kaldor <ehud.kaldor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Even during boot? Do you see the fedora screen while it loads and then
> goes
> >> black, or not even that?
> >
> > I only see a black screen - like when I open the lid and the laptop is
> > shut off. That is all I see even when I boot I never see anything on
> > the screen.
> >
> > I am very perplexed! I'm hoping I did not break my brand new laptop.
> >
> > I have no idea what I could possibly have done to cause this.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> >>> Ehud,
> >
> > Darlene Wallach
> >
> >>> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Ehud Kaldor <ehud.kaldor at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> had that a couple of days ago. i think there was a kernel update that
> >>>> broke
> >>>> the NVIDIA kmod (if you are using it). you can try and login to a
> >>>> different,
> >>>> text console (after boot is done, hold ctrl+alt+F2 or F3) and run
> dmesg
> >>>> or
> >>>> cat /var/log/messages to look for specific errors.
> >>>> anyway, i would recommend setting few seconds pause on the kernel
> >>>> selection
> >>>> screen of grub and boot to a previous kernel.
> >>> I guess I did not explain my situation.
> >>>
> >>> I have a black blank screen. I see nothing just a black screen. I see
> >>> nothing when I try to boot or do a cold shutdown.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you
> >>>
> >>>> Ehud
> >>>>
> >>> Darlene Wallach
> >>>
> >>>> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Darlene Wallach
> >>>> <freepalestin at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> >>>>> I purchased a new laptop from Linux Certified with Fedora 13
> installed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I did "yum update". Now I only have a blank screen when I try to boot
> >>>>> the laptop. Since I can't see anything I have no idea what is going
> >>>>> on.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I did the yum update yesterday. I thought I had rebooted successfully
> >>>>> and left the laptop on with the power supply plugged in and the cover
> >>>>> down. Now I only see a blank screen. I did a hard shutdown and when I
> >>>>> try to boot, I only get a blank screen.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I tried putting a Fedora 11 live CD and still only get a blank
> screen.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any suggestions?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thank you
> >>>>> Darlene Wallach
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> Try booting from a LiveCD of some kind (System Rescue CD, Ubuntu, Knoppix
> etc.)
> I have seen the condition you describe when the notebook thinks it is
> connected to a docking station, turns off its own monitor, and sends video
> out the port to an external monitor. The LiveCD should at least tell you
> whether the notebook is working. (Make sure it's a known to be good CD
> though.)
> - --
> Mark Weisler
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