I just built a new kernel without the framebuffer option. My system does not boot thru this kernel. It gets stuck at "Loading Linux..." or something like that. What is the problem ? If I have the framebuffer option on, there is no problem. -T _________________________________________________________________ Visit Malaysia. Win a free trip! http://server1.msn.co.in/msnspecials/malaysiatourism/index.asp Have an exotic holiday
* tony s (ndxp@hotmail.com) [030329 12:32]: ->I just built a new kernel without the framebuffer option. My system ->does not boot thru this kernel. It gets stuck at "Loading Linux..." ->or something like that. What is the problem ? If I have the framebuffer ->option on, there is no problem. Well, that would because the framebuffer is used to display everything but X on your system. Without it you'll get no text in a terminal (console) so it can't output anything. I would suggest leaving the framebuffer support in the kernel. It doesn't save you anything by leaving it out and it hurts your system when displaying. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:41:49 -0800
Ben Rosenberg
* tony s (ndxp@hotmail.com) [030329 12:32]: ->I just built a new kernel without the framebuffer option. My system ->does not boot thru this kernel. It gets stuck at "Loading Linux..." ->or something like that. What is the problem ? If I have the framebuffer ->option on, there is no problem.
Well, that would because the framebuffer is used to display everything but X on your system. Without it you'll get no text in a terminal (console) so it can't output anything. I would suggest leaving the framebuffer support in the kernel. It doesn't save you anything by leaving it out and it hurts your system when displaying.
I'm doing the same thing, rolled my own kernel without the framebuffer, and it's working fine. You might need to adjust your boot options to vga=normal instead of vga=791 (or whatever). I'm using lilo and it's done in /etc/lilo.conf, don't know where it's done in grub. For your information, the reason I wanted to get rid of framebuffer support, is because when I ran text-mode scripts from an xterm, and there was alot of fast-scrolling output, the framebuffer would just "black out". vga=normal works as I expect. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
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