Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265934AbUA1NCM (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:02:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265936AbUA1NCM (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:02:12 -0500 Received: from c3p0.cc.swin.edu.au ([136.186.1.30]:58893 "EHLO swin.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265934AbUA1NCJ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:02:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 00:02:07 +1100 (EST) From: Tim Connors X-X-Sender: tconnors@tellurium.ssi.swin.edu.au To: David =?iso-8859-15?q?Mart=EDnez=20Moreno?= cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Cursor disappears on console, no frame-buffer In-Reply-To: <200401281356.52102.ender@debian.org> Message-ID: References: <200401281356.52102.ender@debian.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1380 Lines: 35 On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, David [iso-8859-15] Mart?nez Moreno wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > El Mi?rcoles, 28 de Enero de 2004 11:46, Tim Connors escribi?: > > Recently, a few kernel revisions ago, I experimented with the > > frame-buffer. I don't know what I broke, but with nothing frame-buffer > > related in the kernel (It could have been broken for a long time, I > > don't use the console that much, but it certainly worked at one > > stage): > > Have you followed Dave's doc to console new style in 2.6? > > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt > > There you can find a lot of possible problems for an unexistent console. Bugger. I forgot to mention the kernel version (although it is in the dmesg output); realising full well this is a FAQ for 2.6. 2.4.23 originally, still a problem in 25-pre7. I'll have to do some testing to find out how much earlier it is still there. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ So there you have it, supplicant. The Europeans aren't morally superior to you [USAnians] at all. Just intellectually. -- The Usenet Oracle - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/