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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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