Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> Randy Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Snapped cooker yesterday to install on my ThinkPad A20p. ( Try out the
> > new features KDE2, etc withought upsetting my main machine. All went
> > really well, even more so than 7.1. The only problem came after I had
> > installed and wanted to use the fb kernel so that X would work on the
> > machine. The only problem was that as soon as the kernel booted the
> > screen would blank to never be seen again.
> >
> > I finally grabbed the 2.2.16 kernels for the 7.1 distribution and those
> > worked correctly and I now have X running. Something to look at for
> > those folks who need FB devices...
>
> This usually happens on laptops with unsupported resolutions/frequencies.
> Are you sure the settings (e.g. wanted resolution) of the two kernels were
> the same?
>
The display would go away even with *no* vga entry specified in
/etc/lilo. This only happened on the using the fb kernel. It did seem
to detect the chip set used by the display ( ATI rage mobility ). Thank
goodness for networking!
-randy
