I just upgraded from 2.4.21 to 2.6.6 on an Athlon machine with a Matrox G550 video card and when (I assume) it switches to framebuffer mode I don't have a console anymore.
When I boot I see my BIOS page and then it shows the message that it's first trying to boot from CD, then it boots from IDE0 and I get the lilo prompt. Then when it starts booting linux I see a few normal lines of the boot process then the screen changes back to the screen that was before lilo ran -- the screen showing my BIOS setup. And it stays that way. I'm able to (blindly) login and startx, though. I have a laptop that I upgraded to 2.6.5 a few weeks ago and that works fine. I'll include a small selection of my kernel config from the non-working 2.6.6 and from the working laptop 2.6.5. And also I'll show the same config options from my previous working 2.4.21. Update: I just tried again wth all the CONFIG_LOGO_ items disabled, still same problem. Any ideas?? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ egrep '(CONSOLE|FB|FRAMEBUFFER|VGA|LOGO)' /boot/config-2.6.6-xfs-athlon | grep -v ^ CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_LOGO=y CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO=y CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh laptopwired Password:+ Linux laptop 2.6.5-xfs-toshiba #1 Sat May 22 19:29:41 PDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Last login: Sat May 29 13:18:47 2004 from bumby [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ egrep '(CONSOLE|FB|FRAMEBUFFER|VGA|LOGO)' /boot/config-2.6.5-xfs-toshiba | grep -v CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_LOGO=y CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y The old 2.4.21: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ egrep '(CONSOLE|FB|FRAMEBUFFER|VGA)' /boot/config-2.4.21-xfs-athlon | grep -v ^# CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES=y CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | egrep -i '(console|vga|framebuffer)' Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 vga16fb: initializing vga16fb: mapped to 0xf8807000 fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | egrep -i '(console|vga|framebuffer)' Console: colour dummy device 80x25 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xc8800000, size 8192k fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device vga16fb: initializing vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000 fb1: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
