Re: Console corrupted during boot in 2.6.8, will it be included in Sarge?
Replying to the mail from
Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org> with cut an paste from the
debian-kernel mail-archives (I'm not subscribed, so I missed your reply)
Svante
Are you using radeonfb (even statically compiled)?
radeonfb is loaded but unused:
radeonfb 59112 0
Did you try vesa framebuffer?
veasfb is loaded but unused:
vesafb 6656 0
Are your laptop a SXVGA one or not (i.e. capable of 1400x1050)?
Yse.
What's the output of fbset after initialization?
Did you try to switch back to console from X?
Nothing changes, still a black screen
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 18:24, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 11:48, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> > * Svante Signell wrote:
> > > I have a problem with the 2.6.x, x>4 kernels when booting my Dell
> > > Inspiron 4100 laptop. When the console output during boot switches
> > > from 24 lines on the screen to a much higher number of lines, the
> > > font colors appears to be set to black on black background or the
> > > console is corrupted.
> The change of console mode is triggered by a screen blanking: The
> output after this starts with fsck something (for a normal boot). The
> messages are not able to see from the screen ouput since it scrolls away,
> and not all screen outputs are logged in the logfiles.
>
> > Which graphic chip is used in your Dell?
> lspci -v:
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY
> (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00e4
> Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, stepping, 66MHz, medium
> devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
> Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
> Memory at fcff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
> Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>
> > > Since the release of Sarge is imminent, it would be bad if this
> > > happens to other people with Dell laptops.
> >
> > The default kernel for sarge is 2.4, 2.6 will be shipped too.
> > OK
> > > For now I can cope by using 2.4.x series kernels (2.4.27 is default
> > > I beleive) but sooner or later I will change to a 2.6-series kernel
> > > too. Advantages would be e.g. to have alsa and lm-sensors kernel
> > > modules included, without having to download them (2.4.26) or build
> > > them (2.4.27).
> >
> > There are precompiled modules for i2c and lm-sensors for 2.4 kernels.
> OK good to hear. Any alsa modules for 2.4.27?
> > Norbert
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