On Friday 11 November 2005 05:54, Matt Price wrote: > recently compiled a new kernel (2.6.14, with suspend2 patches applied) > & found that > a) on boot the screen stayed blank until gdm started up, and > b) once the system was up pressing ctrl-alt-f1 gave a wierd mash of > colors, so that the console is unusable (or almost -- once or twice > I've been able to switch into console and issue a couple of blind > commands, like "/etc/init.d/gdm restart"). > > I was able to fix the former by removing the "vga=" option from the > kernel line in my grub entry, but the latter remains broken. I > assume this has something to do with the framebuffer (maybe?), but I > have e.g. VESA and VGA support compiled into the kernel (not modules > as I have no initrd on this system -- wasn't working with suspend2, > doubtless b/c of my incompetence). Not sure if I'm missing some other > crucial factor. > > Anyone who can tell me where to look in my .config? > > thanks, > > matt > What's the status of CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE? If it's a module, what happens when you load the fbcon module?
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