Replying to the mail from Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with cut an paste from the debian-kernel mail-archives (I'm not subscribed, so I missed your reply)
Svante Are you using radeonfb (even statically compiled)? radeonfb is loaded but unused: radeonfb 59112 0 Did you try vesa framebuffer? veasfb is loaded but unused: vesafb 6656 0 Are your laptop a SXVGA one or not (i.e. capable of 1400x1050)? Yse. What's the output of fbset after initialization? Did you try to switch back to console from X? Nothing changes, still a black screen On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 18:24, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 11:48, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > > * Svante Signell wrote: > > > I have a problem with the 2.6.x, x>4 kernels when booting my Dell > > > Inspiron 4100 laptop. When the console output during boot switches > > > from 24 lines on the screen to a much higher number of lines, the > > > font colors appears to be set to black on black background or the > > > console is corrupted. > The change of console mode is triggered by a screen blanking: The > output after this starts with fsck something (for a normal boot). The > messages are not able to see from the screen ouput since it scrolls away, > and not all screen outputs are logged in the logfiles. > > > Which graphic chip is used in your Dell? > lspci -v: > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility > M6 LY > (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00e4 > Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, stepping, 66MHz, medium > devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 > Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] > I/O ports at c000 [size=256] > Memory at fcff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 > > > > Since the release of Sarge is imminent, it would be bad if this > > > happens to other people with Dell laptops. > > > > The default kernel for sarge is 2.4, 2.6 will be shipped too. > > OK > > > For now I can cope by using 2.4.x series kernels (2.4.27 is default > > > I beleive) but sooner or later I will change to a 2.6-series kernel > > > too. Advantages would be e.g. to have alsa and lm-sensors kernel > > > modules included, without having to download them (2.4.26) or build > > > them (2.4.27). > > > > There are precompiled modules for i2c and lm-sensors for 2.4 kernels. > OK good to hear. Any alsa modules for 2.4.27? > > Norbert
