I've just completed LFS on my laptop, a Samsung machine with Vaio electronics. The video card is a Vaio Chrome 9.
I already knew that this card has compatibility issues. I had problems after installing NuTyX, because the NuTyX initrd tried to set up a framebuffer console which the card objected to. It went black, then cycled slowly through the other available solid colours (white, red, green...) until I rebooted. Thierry Nutt advised me to blacklist the fb module and rebuild the kernel so as to bypass the initrd, and this solved the problem. I didn't expect the same kind of trouble with lfs, but I got identical symptoms during the startup process. The kernel booted successfully and the init scripts started to run; then while the udev script was running, everything went black. I checked the logs afterwards and they showed that the initialisation had in fact run to completion. It was only the video output that had failed. I edited some additional echo messages into the script and established that it was the "udevadm settle" command that caused the video problem. And when I blacklisted the fb module, the problem disappeared. What is it about this command that affects my video card? -- H Russman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
