From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:01:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:01:35 -0400 Received: from [208.187.172.194] ([208.187.172.194]:12300 "HELO odin.oce.srci.oce.int") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:01:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3B4CA207.8000600@srci.iwpsd.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:59:19 -0600 From: "Joshua M. Schmidlkofer" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010710 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joshua M. Schmidlkofer" , Linux kernel Development Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.4.6-preX, 2.4.6... In-Reply-To: <3B4B1AFB.1090506@srci.iwpsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Just to clear up confusion. No my system does _not_ complete booting, and no this is NOT an X problem! I just have a dead screen about .5 seconds into the boot process..... thanks, Joshua M. Schmidlkofer wrote: > I have a strange problem, and I browsed the archives, but I don't see > it being reported. [God, what's the point.? It's probably far too > ambiguous to be useful.] > > My System > HP Vectra VL8, 128 Ram, pIII 500, Matrox G200 [embedded], 2 Twelve-gig > IDE drives. > Redhat 7.1 [Although, I don't think it matters] > > I am using 'kgcc' [a.k.a. egcs-2.91.66] for compiling the kernel. > > I have not located exactly [in which patch] the problem began, but if > try to boot w/2.4.6-preX - 2.4.6, the video goes away. And then it > seems to lock up the computer. At first I had APGART + DRI + > MatroxFB. So I removed the FB drivers, and tried again. Same > problems. So I modularized Agpart, and DRI, [I need them for my X > config]. No Change. Almost immediatly after 'Uncompressing > Linux.....' I see a rush of the text across the screen, and then the > screen flashes, and blinks, and then nothing. I do not even have a > chance to see anything at all. > I can't tell what's locking up, I tried a SysRQ, but got nothing. No > screen. *sigh* I am not equiped to do this over a serial or parallel > port. I was hoping that someone would have a clue. > In the mean time, I am expirimenting with different things. [kernel > config's] I will try to narrow it to a pre-release from 6. > > > thanks, > Joshua > 2.4.6.config.bz2 > > Content-Type: > > application/octet-stream > Content-Encoding: > > base64 > >