Latest update boots to blank screen (nvidia)

[Arthur Dent]

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 08:48 -0600, CS DBA wrote:
> On 08/24/2011 02:10 PM, CS DBA wrote: 
> > Hi All;
> > 
> > I have an IBM Thinkpad with an Nvidia card ( nVidia Corporation
> > GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2) )
> > 
> > I currently have the nouveau driver black listed in my grub.conf
> > setup:    rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
> > 
> > I did the update which installed/updated the following:
> > 
> > ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be
> > installed                
> > ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be
> > installed          
> > ---> Package kernel-headers.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be
> > updated          
> > ---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 1:280.13-2.fc14 set to be updated 
> > 
> > However when I reboot the system boots to a blank screen, and even
> > the previous kernel boots to a blank screen.
> > I tried installing akmod-nvidia but get the same results
> > 
> > I've restored the system back to before the update for now...
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > -- 
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Kevin Kempter       -       Constent State 
> > A PostgreSQL Professional Services Company
> >           www.consistentstate.com
> > ---------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions how to debug this?

I can't help much, but if you look at my thread from earlier
today 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-August/403344.html
you'll see that I have a very similar problem.

I am just creating an account on the rpmfusion bugzilla list to report
this as a bug (have to go out now so will do it later tonight...).

Regards

Mark
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