I tried BIOS A06 with the C-state off, and hpet=disabled (and hpet=disable). Still no video after a certain point.

On the side, I was having problems with windows 7 and the KVM I use for my office machines. It seems MS has a new spec for w7 that requires fulltime DDC & EDID (something I know nothing about other than I might need a new KVM).

So I connected the Dell 760 directly to the monitor and it worked - system booted with video. Keyboard and mouse were still being available through the KVM however. Bummer.

Once again, slackware v13.0 works justs with KVM so there seems to be software issue.

Pounce - I would like to try a custom kernel and giving that a try - but I don't have the time right now.

IMHO, I don't know if I want this to be considered solved. I would like to use the KVM and others might have a similar problem once 13.1 is released.

Thanks everyone...

dbeck, did you see this? http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...screen-809629/

gapan - I looked at the thread. Unfortunately, I am a kernel newbie so I didn't understand how the thread would be useful for me or exactly how to implement it. So if there is something that you thought would fix my problem could you please summarize that?

Thanks...

Thanks gapan. I reread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...screen-809629/ and found the suggestion to add nomodeset to my lilo.conf kernel parameters. This took care of my problem.

In lilo.conf I changed append=" vt.default_utf8=0" to append=" vt.default_utf8=0 nomodeset".

I am using Slackware v13.1 not the RC2 version.

I am using Slackware v13.1 as well on a Thinkpad R31, and have the same problem as you all are having. I added the nomodeset line to the lilo (after logging in via ssh, etc.) rebooted, and got a console. But like gapan, i couldn't start X. My video/display using lspci -v shows:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: IBM Device 0505
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at 98000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at 90100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]
Subsystem: IBM Device 0505
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at 88000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at 80200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1

so i am using kernel module i915 not an intel module for my video card?. My question: do i need to compile a 2.6.34 kernel, a new/old version of the device driver, or what to get a frame buffer and X back? and (being a newb on compiling mostly) what packages, where are they, what instructions (i know ./configure, ./make, etc) to try to get this to work? Or do i need to update my BIOS? When i do a "dmesg | less" three snippits of the messages i see are:

weird, boot CPU (#0) not listed by the BIOS.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
SMP disabled
Brought up 1 CPUs
Total of 1 processors activated (2132.85 BogoMIPS).

[Firmware Bug]: ACPI(VGA0) defines _DOD but not _DOS
input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A03:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input5
ACPI: Video Device [VGA0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)

thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.24
thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS 1FETA8WW (1.180), EC unknown
thinkpad_acpi: WARNING: Outdated ThinkPad BIOS/EC firmware
thinkpad_acpi: WARNING: This firmware may be missing critical bug fixes and/or important features
thinkpad_acpi: Console audio control enabled, mode: monitor (read only)
input: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input7

I am going to the IBM site to see if i can get a BIOS update, but in the meantime, here is all i think i can give with my problem. Fixed console black screen, no X. Here is the end of the Xorg.0.log file:

(II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
(II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G,
E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM, Pineview G,
965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, GM45,
4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43, Clarkdale, Arrandale
(II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected.
(II) UnloadModule: "intel"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.

Well, i see i AM using the intel driver (i915). So perhaps doing something with the device driver or the kernel would work. What would be quickest?

Have to get back to "real work".