On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:11:36PM +0000, J.A. de Vries wrote: > Hi, > > My boss gave me a Dell Latitude D810 to use for work so I didn't have to > use my privately owned Acer Ferrari 4000 anymore. First thing I did was > install testing on it, which was no problem at all. Next I built a > 2.6.20.1 kernel (vanilla from kernel.org) and now I have a bit of a
Is there any particular reason you need a later kernel? > strange problem: after I make a selection in the grub menu I see about 2 > lines printed to the console (they flash by too fast to read, but they > do not seem to be error messages). After that the screen stays dark > until kdm starts. Everything else is working like a charm. After logging > in to X I tried to change to a virtual console and noticed text mode > won't work there either. Does anyone have an idea what I could do to get > the text console back? I use it regularly. I tried using the vga=xxx > option [1] as a boot parameter, but either I can't find the correct > value for it, or that is not the solution to this problem. You could compare the kernel configs. If they are *too* different then does compiling say a 2.6.18 kernel with the same/similar configs work? -- Chris. ====== Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once etch goes stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
