Helena: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:24, 9 June 2014

2014 Jun 06 -- built from scrap parts. Mostly from the AccessPort Mt St Helena router.

Debian 7 aka "Squeeze"

LVM on hard drive

static IP 192.168.2.205

ssh postgresql emacs postfix apache2 sudo wine

Problem: console screen goes black (and stays that way) during boot.

Fix: blacklist the i915 driver, which you can do like this

# cd /etc/modprobe.d
# echo "blacklist i915" > i915-blacklist.conf
# reboot

@@ Line 32: / Line 32: @@
 wine
-== Weird config issues ==
+== Weird configuration issues ==
-Had to uncomment the GFX_GFXMODE and GRUB_TERMINAL lines in /etc/default/grub so that the console would stay low res, else it would blank out on the KVM
+Problem: console screen goes black (and stays that way) during boot.
-Maybe xdisplay=vesa is the way to do this
+Fix: blacklist the i915 driver, which you can do like this
+ # cd /etc/modprobe.d
+ # echo "blacklist i915" > i915-blacklist.conf
+ # reboot