White Screen with PAE Kernel

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Feb 18 00:35:19 UTC 2009


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?

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