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From: Kurt Wall <kwallinator@gmail.com>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Console Goes Blank When Booting 2.6.15-rc5
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:27:00 -0500
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On Wednesday 14 December 2005 01:37 am, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
> > As Jesper Juhl has reported, if I boot 2.6.15-rc5 with vga=normal,
> > everything is fine. If I boot using my preferred size (vga=794),
> > the console goes blank. Because I'm a touch typist, I can login and
> > start X and everything is copacetic, but as soon as I leave X, I'm
> > back to the blank screen. From X, if I flip over to a VC, the VC
> > display is garbled and has artifacts from the X display.
> >
> > This worked fine with 2.6.14.3, and I didn't change the console,
> > framebuffer, or vesa options between the two kernels. Not sure how
> > to proceed, but I sure would like my high res console screens back.
>
> Can you recheck your .config and make sure that
> CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

Oops. It was defined as a module. Compiling it statically gave me
the console back. Interestingly, I still lose the first 102 lines
of console output. After the all-important boot logo displays, I see
nothing until this line:

"Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64"

It's all there in the ring buffer, of course. Thanks, Antonino.

Kurt
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