Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:53:42 +0200 (MEST) | From | Pierre Letouzey <> | Subject | Re: kernel 2.6.0-test1 refuses to boot on a PC with AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (another one) |
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Hello all
----------------------------------------------------------------------- For the impatients: you may want to try kernel option "video=vga16:off" -----------------------------------------------------------------------
I have also suffered this blank screen probleme after "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel " on a Compaq Evo N800c laptop.
After tests and checkings I am pretty sure that in my case:
* It was not related to the misconfiguration issue mentionned in http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt Yes, my config file contained: CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_INPUT=y
* It was not related with the processor type in .config, as suggested by Herbert Potzl on this list.
I found this "video=vga16:off" solution by chance after heavy mail-list archive browsing. I do not really understand what this tricks does, but it certainly makes my laptop boot ok (in old text console, but I don't care). Seems like something broken concerning my radeon and console graphics in 2.6. I will do some more testing before submitting a proper bug-report.
Hope that this can help some of you...
Pierre Letouzey
Details of my hardware: Compaq Evo N800c CPU P-IV (M) 1,8Go Chipset Intel 82845 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] RAM 775 MB HDD 30 GB
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