On Monday 18 December 2000 04:53, Thomas Vogels wrote: > Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's a Thinkpad T20, the latest series from IBM, it's one of the fastest > > laptops on the market. It was previously working fine until I recompiled > > my kernel (with the same version and options as before). This machine > > hmm, you didn't turn on framebuffer devices by any chance? by > accident?
I have been running framebuffer exclusively since early 1999. It wasn't an accident. ;) > Can you switch vga modes? What happens if you pick another vga mode > (vga=ask in lilo.conf, then pick another video mode)? There's only one mode I ever use. I'll have to play with that though. > If you reinstall/reboot into the old kernel, does the screen work as > expected? If I can find it... I've had some problems with disk errors... > Which X server do you use? Have you tried SVGA instead of the > accelerated server for S3? Only fbdev. > The "previously working fine" sounds suspicious -- is the kernel > the only thing you've changed? Eh, if it's the same version and > options, why did you recompile? I couldn't get it to build the modules without building a new kernel. I had a new pcmcia-source package and ipsec modules I wanted to build. Thanks for the suggestions. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
