RE: Installing a new kernel...
I'm not sure I followed your instructions correctly. I tried looking up
the video option for lilo but didn't see it on the web or the man page
for lilo.conf. Nevertheless I went to my new kernel image and added the
line
video=
to it for my new kernel image.
But it's still doing the same thing. No access to text consoles and I
begin in a blank blue-green screen till I do ctrl-alt-Fn followed be
ctrl-alt-F7
It's not an emergency, but it is irritating. More help would still be
appreciated...
alan
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Gran [mailto:steve@lobefin.net]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 3:48 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installing a new kernel...
This one time, at band camp, alan brown said:
>
> I tried reconfiguring package getty but was told that it is not
> installed and has no available information
>
> So I did an apt-get install on it and was told that it existed in the
> database but had no available version. But that the package util-linux
> replaces it, and I have the latest version of that.
>
> So I tried reconfiguring that but it ignored the command. Perhaps it
> did everything behind the scenes, so I just rebooted. But, no, the
> same problem exists.
>
> The oddest thing about the whole thing is that when my blue/green
> screen comes up, I can't just do ctrl-alt-F7 to get the login screen.
> I have to do ctr-alt- Fn, and then do ctrl-alt-F7 to get it. And then
> I log in to X, but am still unable to use the text consoles.
>
> I'm using kernel 2.4.18-386. It tells me that getty doesn't exist
> but that util-linux replaces it. Does that make sense? It's
> definitely saying that I can't install getty, but perhaps that's
> because its supposed to be part of the kernel?
>
> Any thoughts
>
> alan
getty apparently used to be a seperate package, but is now part of the
util-linux package. In the absence on any additional information,
though, I think this may be barking up the wrong tree. It sounds like
this kernel you installed may be using a framebuffer, and this is dong
screwy things to your display settings, and it's reset by leaving X and
returning to it, at a guess.
Try disabling it (pass video= options to lilo) to see if that helps.
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