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From: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
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To: Gabor MICSKO <gmicsko@szintezis.hu>
Subject: Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:02:21 -0500
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On December 28, 2003 06:08 pm, dan@eglifamily.dnsalias.net wrote:
> 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?

I had problems getting 2.6.0 to work on a second box too.  What seemed to solve
it here was defining the fonts:

CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FONTS=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y

Luck,
Ed Tomlinson