Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262063AbVAOAqg (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:46:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262066AbVAOAqg (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:46:36 -0500 Received: from smtp815.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.170.1]:22415 "HELO smtp815.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262063AbVAOAqa (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:46:30 -0500 Message-ID: <41E868E2.60402@sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:50:42 -0800 From: Steve User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050109) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Drake CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: disabling VESAFB no longer locks up VT (was Re: 2.4.10-r1 MTRR bug) References: <41E595E9.8040805@sbcglobal.net> <20050112230553.683a813b.akpm@osdl.org> <41E84729.1090209@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <41E84729.1090209@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 885 Lines: 29 Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> Steve wrote: >> >>> For the Athlon 2100, I get the following outputs and then the VGA >>> console is frozen from further output (but it doesn't prevent the >>> full bootup into X windows session of which I am able to resume >>> normal Linux/X session, but not able to regain any virtual console >>> session.) >> >> >> >> hm. Not sure what could have caused that. > > > This may be a problem in Gentoo's kernels, we offer an experimental > version of vesafb... Disabling the VESAFB resulted in regaining control of the VTs (virtual terminals). - 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/