I am trying out Storm Linux, which is basically Debian Slink. I have upgraded to Potato and all is running well, apart from a screen corruption problem.
Storm has a graphical boot up which uses the frame-buffer options compiled into the kernel to display a nice graphic around a central text area which shows the boot-up messages - a nice compromise I think between no messages and a full-blown text-mode boot-up. The relevant part of my kernel config file is: # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y # CONFIG_FBCON_MFB is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2 is not set CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4=y # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8 is not set CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24 is not set CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y # CONFIG_FBCON_AFB is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_MAC is not set CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES=y # CONFIG_FBCON_VGA is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y # CONFIG_FONT_8x16 is not set # CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16 is not set # CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22 is not set # CONFIG_FONT_6x11 is not set CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8=y # CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8 is not set I have an ATI Xpert98 graphics card which uses the Mach 64 driver in X. My problem is that when I go to shutdown my system from KDM as soon as I get to the text screen there is screen corruption wherever the boot-up graphic was on boot up. It is a mess of colours. If I do ctrl-alt F2 then ctrl-alt F1 the corruption disappears. Is there a way to ensure I get a clean text screen after exiting X? I have a feeling this is not specifically a Storm Linux issue. Cheers. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux
