I think it's PTYs that you have to enable, nd I don't remember if it was
mentioned already on the list, but I think you need a separate package
to load 2.6 modules (at least you do with Gentoo, but maybe that's just
them.)

I can't wait to play with this over the weekend.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org 
> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hicks
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:20 PM
> To: TCLUG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Wierd 2.6 problem [WAS 2.6 Kernel]
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 19:06, Josh Trutwin wrote:
> > I'm trying 2.6.0 out and it builds fine, and runs fine, but 
> oddly when 
> > I boot up I do not see ANY console boot messages, just a 
> black screen. 
> > After a while the GDM screen pops up.  Any ideas what could cause 
> > this?  It's an older Gateway 5150 laptop.
> 
> Eeesh.  I thought someone was going to fix that.  It's a 
> common problem, because the default kernel configuration 
> doesn't have support for the local text/framebuffer console 
> built in.  It was my impression that someone was going to go 
> through and make the default configuration be much more 
> reasonable for normal people, rather than having options set 
> willy-nilly.
> 
> Anyway, just search for "linux 2.6 black screen" or some 
> variants thereof.  I think almost everyone who has tried 2.6 
> has run into that problem at one point or another.
> 
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