Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-19 Thread Ron Murray
At Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:42:44 +0200, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:23:18PM -0400, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > > The other thing is that I seem to have lost my consoles. I tried to > > ctrl-alt-f1, and the screen was a partial ghost image of the gdm lo

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-19 Thread Sylvain Joyeux
I had the same problem. My kernel config lacked "Framebuffer Console Support" (FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE) in Device Drivers/Graphics Support/Console display driver -- Sylvain Joyeux

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Friday 17 September 2004 10:21, Ken Moffat wrote: > Bradley, > > you might also want to check that you selected support for console on > framebuffer (under Graphics support, then under Console display driver > support). This was exactly the problem...I didn't realize console wasn't on... As

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:17:47AM -0400, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > > On Friday 17 September 2004 02:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > > Is this a self-build kernel or a kernel-image from Debian? It looks > > > like you're missing a framebuf

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:17:47AM -0400, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > On Friday 17 September 2004 02:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Is this a self-build kernel or a kernel-image from Debian? It looks > > like you're missing a framebuffer driver, what does "cat /proc/fb" from > > a xterm say

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Bradley M Alexander
On Friday 17 September 2004 02:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Is this a self-build kernel or a kernel-image from Debian? It looks > like you're missing a framebuffer driver, what does "cat /proc/fb" from > a xterm say? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /proc/fb -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 17 07:16

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:23:18PM -0400, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > Thanks to everybody who posted in response to my earlier question about > resizing partitions. It was successful and my Linux partition has breathing > room again. :) > > Once I got the partition freed up, I decided to use LV

2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-16 Thread Bradley M Alexander
Thanks to everybody who posted in response to my earlier question about resizing partitions. It was successful and my Linux partition has breathing room again. :) Once I got the partition freed up, I decided to use LVM2, so I built 2.6.8. Everything works except for two items. First, at boot, n