From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262161AbTL1XIR (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:08:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262164AbTL1XIR (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:08:17 -0500 Received: from c-67-166-107-168.client.comcast.net ([67.166.107.168]:52358 "EHLO eglifamily.dnsalias.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262161AbTL1XIM (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:08:12 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:08:10 +0000 (UTC) From: dan@eglifamily.dnsalias.net To: Gabor MICSKO cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0 In-Reply-To: <1072640441.720.1.camel@sunshine> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: dan@eglifamily.dnsalias.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 28 Dec 2003, Gabor MICSKO wrote: > http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt > > I tried that. Known gotchas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Certain known bugs are being reported over and over. Here are the workarounds. - Blank screen after decompressing kernel? Make sure your .config has CONFIG_INPUT=y CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y A lot of people have discovered that taking their .config from 2.4 and running make oldconfig to pick up new options leads to problems, notably with CONFIG_VT not being set. ok, so I grep'ed the .config [root@eglifamily kernel]# grep -wi config_input .config CONFIG_INPUT=y [root@eglifamily kernel]# grep -wi config_vt .config CONFIG_VT=y [root@eglifamily kernel]# grep -wi config_vga_console .config CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y [root@eglifamily kernel]# grep -wi config_vt_console .config CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y [root@eglifamily kernel]# you can see that in the .config I attched: > > CONFIG_INPUT=y > > CONFIG_VT=y > > CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y > > CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y Any other ideas? --- Dan