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> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote:
>
> >
> > I rebuilt the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels on LFS-5.0 here. Only a 1% change,
> > mainly in usb because the modules were barfing over hotplug.
> >
> > Spamd is now starting under the 2.4 kernel and all seems well there.
> > Loadkeys is running again under the 2.6 kernel. Neither have
> > framebuffer enabled for the console. The console cursor problem
> > remains. Further, If I change from a console into X and back out,
> > the cursor vanishes :-((.
> >
>
> So, all of the 2.4 problems have gone ? If so, that's _some_
> progress.
Yes. I was being a bit silly with the names, and caught on.
>
> > At any stage, running 'setfont <same font>' restores the cursor
> > action. No dri enabled either, btw.
> >
>
> Do I understand you have FB disabled in your .config ?
Now, after a quick 2.6 rebuild, everything to do with framebuffer is
out. No framebuffer in xorg or console
>
> Did the cursor work adequately on 2.6 in the past ?
>
Never. But I never used 2.6 much.
> Which version of 2.6 are you now using, and which was your previous
> working version ?
2.6.12.1.
2.6.0, 2.6.9, & 2.6.10 all showed the same thing.
>
> As to the vga= not doing anything in 2.6, I've no idea. I use
> framebuffers here (in some kernel versions for some framebuffers they
> work well, other times less well) and on those the bootargs changed
> for 2.6 (e.g. 'radeonfb' instead of 'radeon') and that change seems
> to have been backported into mid-period 2.4. Unfortunately, I failed
> to grok where the kernel parses the video arguments from the command
> line. Which is a roundabout way of saying that maybe the syntax
> changed :) Perhaps try vga=ask - but first, look at dmesg [ in 2.6 ]
> to see if it says anything about the vga= option you passed to it.
It apparently ignores it. Now we have a finger on something.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dmesg |grep -i vga
Kernel command line: noapic acpi=off vga=0x122 root=/dev/hda6 ro
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 (About 5 lines later)
I hacked the grub line once more and used vga=ask. It didn't ask!
Next bit of spare time I'll stick the framebuffer back in. I have
memories that
1. The radeon card responds strangely to the radeon module.
2. I have downgraded the monitor to a cheap/nasty type which may
not do what the previous one did.
>
>
> >
> > I think the init issue was the poor (idiotic) naming convention of
> > kernels and maps in the common /boot partition. I now have
> > vmlinuz-version and System.map-version which was definitely not what
> > I had before.
> >
>
> Yeah, vmlinuz-v.v.v-whatever is definitely the way to go (and for
> 2.6, using /proc/config.gz if you remembered to enable it and didn't
> save a good .config)
>
Is this config.gz the stored .config in the kernel, which can be
extracted from memory? I store them as config-version-MMYY which is
usually enough. It beats having them in ram.
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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