Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:18:59 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.26 broken on headless boxes |
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:04:54PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > You have enabled CONFIG_VT without CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE and > CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE. It is illegal configuration.
Huh. So CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE is not enough any more? I really do think this should be documented in Config.help.
> To fix oopses, either enable 'Framebuffer devices' under 'Console > drivers' section (you do not have to enable any fbdev driver, just > check this option...), or disable CONFIG_VT. See arch/*/kernel/setup.c > for explanation, no code in VT subsystem kernel expects conswitchp == NULL, > but couple of architectures leaves sometime conswitchp uninitialized.
well, this is on x86 ...
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