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cajzell
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:26 pm    Post subject: No output when booting with grub Reply with quote

Hello,

I used genkernel yesterday to build my new 2.6.9-kernel. When that is ready and I have added what it said
Code:
vga=0x317 splash=verbose
to grub.conf (on the kernel line), I rebooted. It looked good until all the normal boot messages where supposed to float by, then it just put out some weird gibberish. I suspected everything went well beneath it all and waited until I suspected the login prompt would have appeared. Then I typed in (without any echo of course) my login info and then
Code:
startx
. Then everything started as usual!

I have also tried without the above commands and still the same problem.

The last thing I see flashing by is some thing with
Code:
vesafb


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had this problem, it was down to using the new framebuffer code in the kernel.

Try using the one that doesn't end in -ng
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Try using the one that doesn't end in -ng


Excuse me, but how do you mean?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, now I know what you mean and thank you very much, it worked!!

If anyone else is reading and wonder the same as I did, the trick was to, after starting
Code:
make menuconfig
disable vesafb-tng under Device Drivers->Graphics Support->VESA VGA Graphics Support->VESA Driver Type(vesafb) and choose vesafb instead.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cajzell wrote:
If anyone else is reading and wonder the same as I did, the trick was to, after starting
Code:
make menuconfig
disable vesafb-tng under Device Drivers->Graphics Support->VESA VGA Graphics Support->VESA Driver Type(vesafb) and choose vesafb instead.

i've just compiled the 2.6.9-r3 kernel for the 6th time, and i can't get the video out of 80x25 text mode.

fwiw, i have tried both vesafb and vesafb-tng in the kernel with appropriate references on the grub kernel line, but i'm still stuck in 80x25 mode. ideas?
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