On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:48, Helge Hielscher wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 13:44:06 +0100, Michael Lothian wrote: > > > > How well is the 2.6 kernel working > > For me it didnt work that well. I've got a blank screen while booting. > This is a known issue: > from http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt > |Known gotchas. > |~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > | Certain known bugs are being reported over and over. Here are the > | workarounds. > | - Blank screen after decompressing kernel? > | Make sure your .config has > | CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y and > | CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y > > In X my mouse does not work and the terminals are unusable(blank display). > This is on a Thinkpad R40 with Pentium-M, Radeon 7500.
Easy fix for the console problem, which I've posted several times; change the vga= setting in lilo.conf to vga=normal . For mouse, try manually loading the relevant modules, loading on boot seems to be fragile at the moment. -- adamw
