Fedora Users — Re: Re: White Screen with PAE Kernel

Message: 5
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:35:19 -0500
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: White Screen with PAE Kernel
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Brian Hanks wrote:

> I'm fairly certain that I've seen this issue discussed in a previous 
> post, but I can't seem to find it.  Anyway, the problem is that I am 
> getting a solid white screen when using the PAE kernel on a fully 
> patched F10 system.  I'm using the NVIDIA drivers and I do have Compiz 
> desktop features enabled.  As soon as I revert back to the non-PAE 
> kernel everything works fine.
> 
> Here are the versions that I'm dealing with:
> kernel - 2.6.27-170.2.5
> nvidia - 180.25-1
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>

Are you using the nvidia PAE drivers? Or dropping the standard model drivers 
into a PAE kernel?

Aaaaah, yes, the obvious will get you every time. I had forgotten that there was an PAE-specific version of the NVIDIA driver. That fixed it.

Thanks!!

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