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From: Paul Misner <paul@misner.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 00:22:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312290022.14411.paul@misner.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312281806070.3217-200000@eglifamily.dnsalias.net>

On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:14 pm, dan@eglifamily.dnsalias.net wrote:
> Ok. After being without power for the past few days due to record
> snowfall, I'm alive again. So I made the changes people had recomended on
> the list. Upgraded to the lastest module-init-tools, and disabled the
> frame buffer support in the kernel. So the only graphic option enabled is
> text mode selection. But when I boot I still get a blank screen!
>
> My lilo.conf contains a line: vga=773, which works beautifully under
> RedHat's stock 2.4.20-8. I get a nice screen with approximately 132x48
> display. Under 2.4.20 I am not loading any frame buffer that I'm aware of.
> It's not listed in my moduiles:
>

Just a suggestion, but why not use vga=normal, which is text mode, instead of 
graphics.  You don't get the boot logo, but it does give you all the boot 
messages on 80x24.  I have been having the same issues, with an Nvidia card, 
and I decided it wasn't worth spending any time on it, since I really just 
wanted to see the messages, not any pictures.

Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-29  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-28 18:14 Blank Screen in 2.6.0 dan
2003-12-28 19:40 ` Gabor MICSKO
2003-12-28 23:08   ` dan
2003-12-29 15:02     ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-12-29  7:45   ` Tomas Szepe
2003-12-29  6:22 ` Paul Misner [this message]
2003-12-29 15:13   ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-06 23:02     ` James Simmons
2004-01-06 23:07       ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-06 23:14         ` James Simmons
2004-01-07  0:39           ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-07 17:44             ` James Simmons
2004-01-07 23:55               ` Jesper Juhl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-29  3:28 Norman Diamond
2003-12-29 22:44 ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30  2:14   ` Norman Diamond
2003-12-30  2:46     ` Thomas Molina
2003-12-30  7:03       ` Wes Janzen
2004-01-05 23:46         ` James Simmons
2004-01-05 23:44     ` James Simmons
2003-12-30 21:03   ` Dan Egli
2004-01-05 23:34     ` James Simmons
2004-01-05 23:35       ` Dan Egli
2003-12-29 14:49 Pacheco Jason NPRI

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