kernel upgrade, no console

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

recently compiled a new kernel (2.6.14, with suspend2 patches applied)
& found that 
a) on boot the screen stayed blank until gdm started up, and 
b) once the system was up pressing ctrl-alt-f1 gave a wierd mash of
colors, so that the console is unusable (or almost -- once or twice
I've been able to switch into console and issue a couple of blind
commands, like "/etc/init.d/gdm restart").  

I was able to fix the former by removing the "vga=" option from the
kernel line in my grub entry, but the latter remains broken.  I
assume this has something to do with the framebuffer (maybe?), but I
have e.g. VESA and VGA support compiled into the kernel (not modules
as I have no initrd on this system -- wasn't working with suspend2,
doubtless b/c of my incompetence).  Not sure if I'm missing some other
crucial factor.

Anyone who can tell me where to look in my .config?

thanks,

matt




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