Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0

[Thomas Molina <tmolina@cablespeed.com>]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Norman Diamond wrote:

> Dan wrote:
> 
> > Upgraded to the lastest module-init-tools, and disabled the
> > frame buffer support in the kernel. So the only graphic option enabled is
> > text mode selection. But when I boot I still get a blank screen!
> > My lilo.conf contains a line: vga=773, which works beautifully under
> > RedHat's stock 2.4.20-8.
> 
> In my experience the vga= option worked with every 2.4 kernel in every
> distro that I had used, continued working with 2.6 test* and 0 in Red Hat
> 7.3, but blanked the screen with 2.6 test* and 0 in SuSE 8.1 and SuSE 8.2.
> Haven't tried other configurations with 2.6.
> 
> But now you're getting the same with a Red Hat distro, so it's looking
> pretty random.
> 
> The decision to release 2.6.0 with the same broken vga= option that was
> reported many times in 2.6.0-test* makes me think that vga= is not intended
> to work.

Maybe it has something to do with RedHat 7.3.  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've got 
framebuffer support as a module.