Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030324AbWEDUtB (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 16:49:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030326AbWEDUtB (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 16:49:01 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com ([66.249.82.199]:36193 "EHLO wx-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030324AbWEDUtA (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 16:49:00 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OWIM4ZX/4vEmSaxCFUQA7aWplCyDKlmFql66vRvkWGy2KCXU2QAiZxzG+c+57EmlXtb3XUOLLcm5W7976rXQwtBD/L4nf+K1kWbDamof8z8NQ84g6pmW6J+0uT4++yazGv2efZcwPUNMcXTvig0HEf9jxpNn9uzMh+kcmDCON9Y= Message-ID: <445A68AC.3090207@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 04:48:44 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giuseppe Bilotta CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: framebuffer broken in 2.6.16.x and 2.6.17-rc3 ? References: <60f2b0dc0605021251i1c883617vf132e8bdeffd6c7f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1048 Lines: 26 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2006 21:51:13 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > >> I'm surprised noone has raised that issue yet, so I'm wondering if I'm >> missing something obvious :) When using the fb in 2.6.16.x and >> 2.6.17-rc3, the screen stays just black, nothing is displayed... I'm >> using the regular unaccelerated vesa framebuffer. > > It may sound silly and it's probably not relevant to your case, but I > had this kind of result during a kernel upgrade some versions ago when > I forgot the fbcon module. > Not silly because that is exactly what happened. He sent me his config in a private mail. I don't know what method he used to upgrade his kernel, but the setting changed from 'y' to 'm', and I've received quite a few reports from different users on this lately... Tony - 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/