Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

[Mick]

On Wednesday 25 Jan 2012 20:23:33 BRM wrote:
> Well, just to follow up on this - I did get the nouveau driver working and
> the system operational.
>
> - The console still does not work; don't know why but it seems to not get a
> working resolution. Not sure how to fix that right now. - Starting XDM
> (KDM) works, and brings up the login.
> - I am able to SSH in from another system now.
>
> Now, this was after I paid a little closer attention to some updates. I
> resync'd emerge, and got the 3.1.6 linux kernel, which I promptly upgraded
> to. I also went back and rebuilt the X11 drivers (nouveau, keyboard,
> mouse, evdev), and paid closer attention to the output of the nouveau
> driver which immediately started off saying there was an issue with the
> ACPI_WMI and MXM_WMI interfaces from the kernel - another kernel rebuild
> after enabling those (it had when I selected the driver I think, but I
> kept disabling the x86 features which removed them) and then it didn't
> complain any longer.
>
> So, I seem to have a working X environment; but no working console
> environment for now. I'm guessing I probably need to tell the nouveau
> frame buffer driver what resolution to use to resolve that one.
>
> Thanks all!
>
> Ben
>
> >________________________________
> >
> > From: BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com>
> >
> >To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
> >Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 8:49 PM
> >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up
> >
> >> From: BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com>
> >> To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
> >> Cc:
> >> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:50 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up
> >>
> >>>  From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:31 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote:
> >>>>  As the system starts to boot-up, it switches like it is going to
> >>>>start X - changing a video mode somehow. I don't have xdm in the
> >>
> >> runlevels
> >>
> >>>>  yet, so it can't be starting XDM at all.This seems to happen right
> >>>>  after udevd is started, while it waiting on the udev events. The
> >>>>system then just shuts off (power remain on - fans are still on, but
> >>>>monitors are off,  and nothing responds, etc.) , and it never
> >>>>completes boot-up.
> >>>>
> >>> Do you have another computer you can use to test if it is alive with
> >>> ping or SSH? This is occurring around the point at which KMS kicks in,
> >>> you may be just losing your display but still have an otherwise
> >>> working system.
> >>
> >> Yes SSH is enabled; no I can't SSH into it. It seems to be completely
> >> dead.
> >>
> >>> Try adding nomodeset (or intel.modeset=0) to your kernel boot
> >>> parameters to disable KMS.
> >>
> >> Ok. Setting "nomodeset" works. However, if I understand the nouveau
> >> driver correctly then that won't work for using the nouveau driver as it
> >> requires KMS.
> >>
> >> Digging a little deeper into the nouveau driver and KMS[1], I discovered
> >> that I probably need to have CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING set in the
> >> kernel config as well - which it wasn't. So that probably explains what
> >> was happening as CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE was set, so there may have been two
> >> drivers competing for fb0.
> >>
> >> Now off to build a new kernel...
> >
> >Well, that doesn't seem to have been the only problem at least...still
> >don't know what's doing it.

Does it work satisfactorily with kernel 3.0.6?

I found the 3.1.6 breaking suspend on my machine so have gone back to 3.0.6, 
but my hardware and video driver is different to yours.
-- 
Regards,
Mick