Re: Getting the penguin on linux 2.6

[Gavin Henry <gavin.henry@magicfx.co.uk>]

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On Friday 26 Dec 2003 11:16 pm, csj wrote:
> After three days of browsing various leads posted here[1], I
> managed to get my spare computer running on linux 2.6 and
> nVidia's binary-only video drivers (installed with the help of
> the non-free "nvidia-graphics-drivers" packages).
>
> Everything seems to be functional, including chromium, tuxracer
> and armagetron.  My only remaining problem is getting the
> framebuffer console to work.  I can get the console to work if I
> don't enable framebuffer at boot time, i.e. if I boot without the
> penguin mascot;-).
>
> Any pointers?  FWIW I built my 2.6 kernel using a
> framebuffer-capable /boot/config-2.4* saved (with no user-addled
> changes) thru "make gconfig".
>
> [1]e.g. http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/index.html

Check out the "known gotchas" section. And only do vesa and vesa-16 in your
options:

http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt

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