no display with kernel 2.6.0
Rudi Engelbertink
rudi at unsec.nl
Wed Dec 24 16:26:33 UTC 2003
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Dave Jones wrote:
> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:35:16 +0000
> From: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: no display with kernel 2.6.0
>
> On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 09:48, Alimin Bijosono Oei wrote:
> > I downloaded kernel 2.6.0 from
> > http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/and installed it.
> > Problem appeared on reboot into the the new kernel. It got to the point
> > where X was supposed to start but nothing turned up, the screen just
> > went blank. Has anybody experienced the same thing? The installed fedora
> > was an upgrade from RH 9 before.
>
> How do things go with the rawhide 2.6 kernel ?
> (Also available at http://people.redhat.com/davej/FedoraCore2/)
Did you set a vga=792 in the lilo.conf or in grub, this will turn off the
screen with a 2.6 kernel.
give vga=828 a try or vga=ask
RGDS Rudi
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