Ron Johnson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/08 08:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:Ron Johnson wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/08 14:21, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:Ron Johnson wrote:On 07/09/08 10:19, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [snip]Hmm -- that seems problematic. Driver misconfigurations have left my system in an unbootable state before; I'd hate to have to jump through hoops to downgrade to working drivers -- I'd think it should at least ask before auto-configuring everything.This is why I refuse to enable fb, DRI & [xgk]dm. The nvidia kernel module isn't loaded until you run startx. So, no matter how hosed X gets, the machine is functional and you can log into the console, reading email with Mutt and surf the web with links2. This is why I am distressed about kernel modeline settings.What?Be a bit more specific.What do you mean by kernel modeline settings?Sorry, it's mode setting, not modeline setting. http://kerneltrap.org/node/8242 http://keithp.com/blogs/kernel-mode-drivers/
They have to do something, VT management is a mess.To wit my problems with vga= in Debian's 2.6.25 kernel (*not* with kernel.org's 2.6.25.9!)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481063 Hugo