* Michael S Daines <ax2groin@arbornet.org>, 2003-05-26 12:51 -0400: > This weekend, I tried to build a new kernel (2.4.20) on my laptop (Dell Inspiron > 2650). I'm running unstable now, I believe (is there a command that I could > convey to people to explain this better?). I think it's clear; see your /etc/apt/sources.list :) > In any case, when I started up the new kernel, it wouldn't boot into KDE. So I > installed the latest NVidia modules from their website. Now, whenever I boot > into the new kernel, I just get a black screen. I've waited a while for it, to > see if there might be a delay, but this isn't the issue. I then have to screw > up everything to get myself functional again... hard reboot, fsck my active > partition, etc. > > I can, however, get everything to run fine with my 2.2 kernel. Interesting... I also have an i2650 (with 2.4.20-1-686 supplied by Adrian Bunk), and the only nvidia drivers that work flawlessly for me are the ones that come with woody. Having said that, I had similar problems as you when experimenting with never versions when the BIOS display setting was set to "LCD". Try "Both" (or was it "Auto"?) instead. And oh, I switched to ext3 to avoid data loss in case things go wrong. Not ideal if battery life is of the issues though because it syncs every 5 seconds. -Andre
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