Re: console blanking and cdrom issue

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Vikas BN wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>   I installed Sarge from a DVD, then "dist-upgard"ed to sid.
>
>  After that i installed the 2.6.14 kernel image. Now i have 2 issues,
>
>  1. i changed the "kernel" line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
>   from
>            /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1-686 root=/dev/sda6 ro
>
>   to
>          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1-686 root=/dev/sda6 ro vga=791
>     Now the console blanks, and i can't see any thing on the
>    screen until gdm comes up.
>  
>  2. now, my cdrom also doesn't seem to work!
>
>   System details:
>   Dell D610 latitude
>   Pentium M 1.73GHz. with ATI M24 video card.
>
>   Debian Sid
>   uname -r == 2.6.14-1-686

Did you google for that blank console? That was covered in the list just 
a few days ago.
The answer is in what .config has in it in /boot.
If no one else has an immediate solution, attach that.

H