On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, aa6qn wrote:
>Need to ask the Linux Guru's on how to kill the Linux console screen
>black out. Or, at least change the timing on it. I have a feeling that
>it may be part of my lockup problems. Was looking in the /etc/sysconfig
>but did not see anything regarding the console settings.
>
>For Richard, I am running RH6.0 with the linux kernel 2.2.13 on a
>Pentium 133 with 64meg ram. I tried several kernels and they all lock
>up after a bit. Hmmm, wonder if it is Jnos ? At one time I had it up for
>days without a problem. I am also posting this to the nos-bbs folks, in
>case they have some ideas as well. One thing of note is that while I am
>working on the console , or when someone is using the Squid cache, it
>seems not to lockup very often.
Hello John.
This is interesting as i think i may have had the same problem with
the system just locking, i had this when i compiled my first 2.2.x
kernel, what i did not do was read the flipping manual, i just
defined what i thougt best and away i went, only to find that the
first time i started up X and then switched back to a console
everything just died, no messages in the logs and no screen dump.
The mistake i made was defining Framebuffers wrongly that was i
belive with kernel 2.2.10 or 11 i cant remember but i dont think
thats the issue here, i have run 2.2.13 without problems.
Unfortunaly i get connection refused thesedays when trying to telnet
to you, so i cant look to confirm my susspishtions.
You might want to try and define the framebuffers with make config
use the following as an example, please note i have a matrox video
card, if you dont have a matrox dont define one.
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
# CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM=y
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE is not set
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16=y
# CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22 is not set
CONFIG_FONT_6x11=y
CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8=y
The above is not perfect and some options are not nessacary, however
it does work here ok.
You might want to take a look at;
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/*
yourself.
>Thank you to all those who responded to my kissattach query.
Keep in touch.
>
>73, John
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Regards Richard
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