live cd boots to blank screen on Dell latitude E6410 with Nvidia Nvs 3100M

[Goalie Fight]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

The newly released e6410 boots to a blank screen when using the live CD. The desktop appears to load in the background because I can hear the startup sound play, but I can't see anything on the display.

I'm also not able to access any of the virtual consoles to troubleshoot the problem.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Goalie,

Please run the command 'apport-collect BUGNUMBER', which will attach several files we need for debugging.

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[Goalie Fight (goaliefight)]

@Bryce

Unable to do so since the virtual consoles will not display either.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

You could probably type blindly into the virtual terminals to collect the information, but this is a bit difficult!

You can also probably boot the LiveCD by selecting the “Safe graphics mode” or “nomodeset”. Sadly the logs from when you're booting with nomodeset aren't useful, but once you've got some persistent storage we can grab useful logs from previous boots.

[Jon Packard (jonpackard)]

I get the same behavior trying to boot to Lucid 64-bit live CD on my HP EliteBook 8440p with nvidia NVS 3100M graphics. I was able to use the "nomodeset" to install and on first boot until I installed the proprietary nvidia drivers. The other problems I run into are:

-I cannot adjust the brightness - it is all or nothing. (Bug #562005)
-Whenever I close my screen without suspending (just turns the screen off), I have to switch to a VT and back to turn my screen back on. (probably related to the previous problem)

I suspect my remaining problems can be attributed to problems with the proprietary drivers.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

@Goalie: We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[papukaija (papukaija)]

@Goalie: We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!