Sorry, I sent this to debian-user by mistake (not subscribed), but to follow up:
It's a bug listed at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279648 what I did to "fix" for now is, as mentioned in the bug report, download 2.6.9 from kernel.org and copied linux-2.6.9/drivers/video/vesafb.c to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9/drivers/video/ and rebuild the kernel. --------------- original message ----------- I upgraded from 2.6.5 to 2.6.9 today -- I used the debian kernel-source-2.6.9 package and copied the 2.5.6 .config file into the 2.6.9 directory before building to retain my old config settings. I no longer have my vesa (framebuffer??) screen on boot. The screen is blank from after the lilo prompt until xdm starts. In lilo.conf I have vga=0x317 -- which is what I had before. This is odd as I had this same problem (no screen at boot) when I upgraded from 2.4.x to 2.6.x and resolved by rebuilding the kernel -- but I seem to have not written how I resolved it in my system notes. It bothers me that a kernel upgrade from 2.6.5 to 2.6.9 with only a few config changes would result in this problem. Anyone have suggestion what changed? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ egrep ^CONFIG /boot/config-2.6.5-xfs-toshiba > 2.6.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ egrep ^CONFIG /boot/config-2.6.9-xfs-toshiba > 2.6.9 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ diff 2.6.5 2.6.9 4a5 > CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y 7d7 < CONFIG_STANDALONE=y 8a9 > CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="" 20a22,23 > CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y > CONFIG_SHMEM=y 47c50 < CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y --- > CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0 55d57 < CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=y 59a62 > CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI=m 60a64,65 > CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y > CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m 79d83 < CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y 86d89 < CONFIG_SCSI_REPORT_LUNS=y 118a122,123 > CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=m > CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=m 133,134d137 < CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=m < CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=m 145a149 > CONFIG_PRISM54=m 176a181 > CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y 183d187 < CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y 219a224 > CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y 222a228,229 > CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437 > CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1" 224a232 -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
