From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264358AbTL3Cqw (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:46:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264361AbTL3Cqw (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:46:52 -0500 Received: from [24.35.117.106] ([24.35.117.106]:33931 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264358AbTL3Cqv (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:46:51 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:46:45 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Molina X-X-Sender: tmolina@localhost.localdomain To: Norman Diamond cc: dan@eglifamily.dnsalias.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0 In-Reply-To: <00d401c3ce7a$a302fd80$98ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> Message-ID: References: <007101c3cdbc$046a58d0$2fee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <00d401c3ce7a$a302fd80$98ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> 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 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.