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. > > -- > _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Page 9 of 1 > / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ > \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) > [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | > mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list