linux-gru 4.4.166 black screen on boot

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linux-gru 4.4.166 black screen on boot

Postby ramsey » Sat Dec 08, 2018 5:06 am

Updated to latest 4.4.x kernel this morning and now I only get a black screen on boot. The previous new kernel was giving black screen on poweroff, so I had hoped this would fix it. Instead things are worse. Is there a way to flash the mainline kernel to my microsd card before I give up and reflash it? Thank you.
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Re: linux-gru 4.4.166 black screen on boot

Postby ramsey » Sun Dec 09, 2018 4:25 am

I reinstalled the latest tarball which is using 4.4.164. Just confirming, this is the version which has the black screen on shutdown.
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Re: linux-gru 4.4.166 black screen on boot

Postby TheCycoONE » Mon Dec 17, 2018 1:57 am

Seems to be a common problem with that version. I get the same issue on my Samsung Chromebook Plus. I've downgraded to 4.4.164 in the mean time.
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Re: linux-gru 4.4.166 black screen on boot

Postby TheCycoONE » Mon Feb 18, 2019 4:44 pm

I've switched to the mainline kernel. It has been working well
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Re: linux-gru 4.4.166 black screen on boot

Postby ramsey » Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:51 pm

In case anyone is still running into this problem, here is the tarball and signature for 4.4.164. It will black screen on shutdown, but it works. You can start with this and then install mainline to get around the no video problems.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=16WIu7 ... 4GVU98z83B
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1im5Ib ... WoSLd29Pz9
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