Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14
On Monday 31 October 2005 11:28, Curt Howland wrote:
> Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the usual topping off of
> the tank, as it were, and tried it out today.
>
> LILO puts up the usual "......" for loading, then bam, black screen.
> There's some disk access for about 10 seconds, then nothing and the
> CPU fan starts spinning up like it's utilizing 100%.
>
> I do have the Knoppix sourced "vga=791" for a decent console screen,
> but that's worked since kernel 2.2.x.
>
> Is anyone else having difficulties with 2.6.14? I revert to 2.6.12 and
> everything runs just fine.
>
> Curt-
>
Hi Curt,
Lots of people have been having that problem[0]. If you want to see what's
going on, you'll need to edit the yaird config file to include the fbcon
module, then rebuild your image. The easiest way to rebuild the image is
to reinstall the package.
Justin Guerin
[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336450
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