Re: No text mode display after grub
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:48:40 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:11:36PM +0000, J.A. de Vries wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My boss gave me a Dell Latitude D810 to use for work so I didn't have to
> > use my privately owned Acer Ferrari 4000 anymore. First thing I did was
> > install testing on it, which was no problem at all. Next I built a
> > 2.6.20.1 kernel (vanilla from kernel.org) and now I have a bit of a
>
> Is there any particular reason you need a later kernel?
>
> > strange problem: after I make a selection in the grub menu I see about 2
> > lines printed to the console (they flash by too fast to read, but they
> > do not seem to be error messages). After that the screen stays dark
> > until kdm starts. Everything else is working like a charm. After logging
> > in to X I tried to change to a virtual console and noticed text mode
> > won't work there either. Does anyone have an idea what I could do to get
> > the text console back? I use it regularly. I tried using the vga=xxx
> > option [1] as a boot parameter, but either I can't find the correct
> > value for it, or that is not the solution to this problem.
>
> You could compare the kernel configs. If they are *too* different then
> does compiling say a 2.6.18 kernel with the same/similar configs work?
I think this might be related to the framebuffer driver. You can try to
"modprobe vesafb" (or whatever fb module is suitable for your graphics
card) from an X root console and see if this helps. It might be
necessary to compile vesafb (or ...fb) statically into the kernel.
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Regards,
Florian
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