On 2007-03-05 @ 01:48:40 (week 10) Chris Bannister wrote: Sorry to get back only now. Haven't been keeping up with my mail due to an overly full agenda and todo list.
> Is there any particular reason you need a later kernel? Other than wanting to try out a couple of new features no, not really. > You could compare the kernel configs. If they are *too* different then > does compiling say a 2.6.18 kernel with the same/similar configs work? Nothing too different between them. I am probably overlooking something. Up til now I've never had any problems with my home-made kernels. However, I do tend to strip them down quite aggressively. Changes are I did something that causes problems only for this particular setup. Meanwhile I have tried a couple of things. First I noticed I hadn't enabled the framebuffer. After I did that I did get back the console and after some tweaking I even managed to get X running too, but only in VESA mode and only for a very short time. After it starts up it gets progressively slower until it grinds down to a full stop. I tried to enable the radeon driver, but the same happened. Weirder still, if I try to install the ati driver from the console the slowing down starts as soon as the installer begins showing the (text-mode) dialogs (not before). Ah well, I've given up and returned to the comfort of the pre-compiled Debian GNU/Linux kernel (2.6.18-4). Everything is fine now. Though it still bugs me I didn't find out what I did wrong... Thanks for trying to help! Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
