From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Organization: CC CTU Prague
To: Jurriaan on adsl-gate <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:34:12 +0200
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3: matrox framebuffer halts booting?
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On 12 Aug 03 at 13:34, Jurriaan on adsl-gate wrote:
> If I try to boot a self-compiled kernel with the matrox framebuffer, the
> booting process halts after 'Freeing unused kernel memory'.
> 
> After that, the system isn't hung (numlock works, ctrl-alt-del works)
> but it also doesn't boot (not reachable over the network, blindly
> logging in doesn't work). Before that, the framebuffer seems to work - I
> see a resolution change and a penguin boot-logo.

Did you tried whether alt-sysrq-p or shift/ctrl/alt-scrolllock do not 
produce some reasonable hint about where it got stuck?
                                                    Petr

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