Kernel 3.7 - Blinking cursor after boot? [Solved]

[iindigo]

Hello,

I've been happily running Sabayon for about a week now. It's been great coming from Fedora and is easily on par with Mint (which mysteriously has issues on my hardware).

Anyway, after running the post-install update, I rebooted into the 3.7 kernel. The boot screen finishes but instead of starting GDM and displaying the login screen, it just dumps me at a blank screen with a blinking cursor that I can't do anything with. 3.5 still boots and works perfectly, but I'd really like to stay current if I can.

Has anybody else experienced these symptoms? How can they be treated?

My hardware:
= Dell Precision M4400 =
- C2D T9400 2.5Ghz
- NVidia Quadro FX770M
- 8GM RAM
- Newly purchased 500GB 7200RPM HD

[dunsurfin]

It sounds as though there may be a mismatch between your kernel and your nvidia drivers. It will help if you can give more details about your installation. Which version of Sabayon Linux did you install, did you use kernel-switcher to upgrade to 3.7?
Assuming you can get to a command prompt (F2) run (as root)

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eselect opengl list

and make sure that nvidia is set - if not, set it using

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eselect opengl set nvidia

If that works (after a reboot) then that is the issue and the drivers are OK.
Other checks you can carry out from the command prompt (also as root) are

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equo deptest

and

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equo libtest

[wolfden]

how did you install 3.7 kernel? http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title ... l_Switcher

errors in the log files?

[iindigo]

Hey guys, sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Life's been busy!

At any rate, I gave everything mentioned in both of your posts a shot (including the kernel switching mentioned in the wiki). Everything checks out fine, but for whatever reason I still only get a blinking cursor when booting 3.7.

The kernel was installed along with a pile of other updates by the update utility. Would removing and reinstalling anything (I'm thinking maybe the nvidia drivers) help? Also, which log files (I'm assuming those in /var/log/) should I be looking at?

Thanks for the help. It's times like this when being a relative amateur at Linux sucks!

[Stupot]

You shouldn't need to remove the packages, just reinstall over them. I would definitely try reinstalling the nvidia-drivers. It takes very little time.

[iindigo]

Well, I feel silly now. It turns out that the drivers installed were for 3.5, not 3.7. While booted into 3.7 I logged into root and installed nvidia-drivers-313.18#sabayon-3.7.0 with equo and now it boots up correctly on 3.7.

It's my bad for not checking first but I figured equo would've installed the appropriate drivers for 3.7 along with the kernel update.