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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:19:12 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Holger Schurig <h.schurig@mn-logistik.de>
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Subject: Re: Post-halloween doc updates.
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On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:15:25PM +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
 > > - 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.
 > 
 > Would a couple of "default y" entries in Kconfig be a cure against this?

Reports of this problem seem to have tailed off over the last few months
so its entirely possible that this is now fixed.

		Dave