Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0

From: Thomas Molina
Date: Mon Dec 29 2003 - 21:47:53 EST




On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Norman Diamond wrote:

> > I've used RH8, RH9, and Fedora Core 1 and haven't had a problem with vga=
> > in any of them during the 2.5/2.6 series, right up through the current one.
>
> I forgot if Dan is using RH8 or RH9. Whichever, you're getting different
> results than he did, because his failed with one of these and yours works
> with both. At least my failures with SuSE are consistent. I'd say the
> overall inconsistency points to a bug in 2.6.0-test* and .0. Especially
> when no one seems to be reporting similar failures in the 2.4 series.

I've had problems at various times during 2.5 with a number of
card-specific framebuffer drivers so I've backed off to only using the
VESA framebuffer driver. Maybe the connection is which framebuffer driver
is used.
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