Re: Snarled console after X 4.0.2 runs.
Anthony Lau wrote:
> At 5:04 PM -0400 4/25/2001, Robb Kidd wrote:
>> X snarls the F1 - F5 text consoles, but runs fine itself.
> (You meant to include F6, too?) ...
Damn. Yes. F6, too.
>> Killing the X server does not unsnarl them.
>> [snip]
>
> Two things come to mind:
>
> 1) Are you sure you said yes to virtual consoles in menuconfig?
Positive.
>
> 2) If you do not start up the X server, do the text consoles
> F1-F6 work? If yes, then it could be iffy driver.
They do, yes.
My problem certainly appears to be related to others' experiences with
framebuffer issues. How do I disable the framebuffer if the CONFIG_FB
entry is missing from kernel-source-2.4.2/.config? Is this a line I can
safely add?
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