Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2006 21:51:13 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>
>> I'm surprised noone has raised that issue yet, so I'm wondering if I'm
>> missing something obvious :) When using the fb in 2.6.16.x and
>> 2.6.17-rc3, the screen stays just black, nothing is displayed... I'm
>> using the regular unaccelerated vesa framebuffer.
>
> It may sound silly and it's probably not relevant to your case, but I
> had this kind of result during a kernel upgrade some versions ago when
> I forgot the fbcon module.
>
Not silly because that is exactly what happened. He sent me his config in a
private mail.
I don't know what method he used to upgrade his kernel, but the setting
changed from 'y' to 'm', and I've received quite a few reports from
different users on this lately...
Tony
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