From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274988AbTHATzF (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:55:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274992AbTHATyV (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:54:21 -0400 Received: from lri.lri.fr ([129.175.15.1]:59553 "EHLO lri.lri.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S274988AbTHATxr (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:53:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:53:42 +0200 (MEST) From: Pierre Letouzey X-X-Sender: letouzey@lri To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.0-test1 refuses to boot on a PC with AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (another one) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello all ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For the impatients: you may want to try kernel option "video=vga16:off" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I have also suffered this blank screen probleme after "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel " on a Compaq Evo N800c laptop. After tests and checkings I am pretty sure that in my case: * It was not related to the misconfiguration issue mentionned in http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt Yes, my config file contained: CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_INPUT=y * It was not related with the processor type in .config, as suggested by Herbert Potzl on this list. I found this "video=vga16:off" solution by chance after heavy mail-list archive browsing. I do not really understand what this tricks does, but it certainly makes my laptop boot ok (in old text console, but I don't care). Seems like something broken concerning my radeon and console graphics in 2.6. I will do some more testing before submitting a proper bug-report. Hope that this can help some of you... Pierre Letouzey Details of my hardware: Compaq Evo N800c CPU P-IV (M) 1,8Go Chipset Intel 82845 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] RAM 775 MB HDD 30 GB