Nope, Before it even show's the assorted processes
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From: "Martin McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 5:22 PM
Subject: [scottish] upgrading 2.4.5 to 2.4.9
> > I just upgraded my 2.4.5 kernel to 2.4.9 but when I rebooted the system
it
> > gave me a blank screen. I did everything right, edited and re-run LILO,
but
> > then this happened.
> >
> > Has this ever happened to anyone else?
>
> Did it go through a normal boot-up with assorted processes getting
> started then give you a blank screen? Or did it hang before booting?
> Or did it try to start X and the screen went blank? Or some other
> variation on a blank-screen-theme?
>
> If your machine normally starts X automatically, and if it is now
> booting OK but X isn't starting properly, then you might to consider the
> below. If it's something else, I think we need some more information in
> order to help.
>
> If you use DRI/DRM I believe that 2.4.9 builds DRM drivers that are
> appropriate for XFree 4.1 rather than 4.0.x and that might be causing a
> problem for you. You might want to change your kernel configuration
> options and/or your XFree configuration to not use DRM and see if that
> makes a difference.
>
> There will hopefully be a clue in the X log file which is probably
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log or something similar.
>
> M
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