Sorry to bring this up. I just wanted to say that, after a dist-upgrade, the latest Linux kernel from Jessie backports (4.9.0) boots just fine.
I could never known what was wrong with Linux 4.7. Thanks for your support, Emiliano. On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:09 PM, Brad Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20/12/16 06:08, marc wrote: > >> Hi devuanfanboy, >>> >>> Thanks but no, that dind't work. >>> >> >> I have also had an interesting time getting the devuan beta to >> run with a newer kernel. >> >> In my case I have forgone the entire initrd, and built the newest >> stable kernel from kernel.org with the necessary drivers built in. >> In some kernel configurations the system boots into a blank screen. >> In others X doesn't come up. >> >> I suspect (but can't confirm) that it has something to do with how >> the framebuffer or related kernel graphics drivers are initialised. >> >> I think there was some sort of changeover between the old style >> framebuffers and simpleframebuffer ? Please regard this as a >> rumor, and somebody correct me if it is obviously wrong - as I >> haven't gotten around to looking at it more. For the record: I was >> doing this on an intel graphics chipset. >> > > Just as a test, try CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y > > I had a hells own time upgrading an older system to a newer kernel and not > getting any console until I enabled that legacy option. > > It might help, then again maybe not. Your post just triggered me to look > back through my upgrade notes. I think that came in around 4.4 (ish). > > Regards, > Brad >
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