After upgrading from RHEL 6.4 to RHEL 6.5 on a Lenovo Thinkpad W530 using nouveau driver, the system will not boot with any external monitors attached.

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Issue

  • After upgrading from RHEL 6.4 to RHEL 6.5 on a Lenovo Thinkpad W530 using nouveau driver, the system will not boot with any external monitors attached.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5
  • xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.1-3.el6
  • kernel-2.6.32-431.3.1.el6

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