I downloaded kernel 2.6.0 from
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/and installed it.
Problem appeared on reboot into the the new kernel. It got to the point
where X was supposed to start but nothing turned up, the screen just
went blank. Has anybody experienced the same thing? The installed
fedora
was an upgrade from RH 9 before.
How do things go with the rawhide 2.6 kernel ? (Also available at http://people.redhat.com/davej/FedoraCore2/)
It still gave me the same result, blank screen. By the way, this is a
Compaq Presario 1500 laptop. Perhaps there is something particular to
laptop display setting? I was googling and found out that some people also had this kind of experience but that was a while ago during 2.6.0-pre testing phases. I would hope that by now it should have been fixed but it wasn't the case for me. In the end, I decided to do full clean reinstall of Fedora instead of upgrading from existing RH9 installation and that solved the problem. Perhaps others want to verify this or perhaps it was just my setting that was wrong somewhere.
I think I found the cause for the problem. If I set the display setting to have million colours (24 bit), the problem occurs again. If it is set to be thousand colours (16 bit), X will just start fine into kernel 2.6.0. Has anybody experimented this too? Hopefully this can give some useful input.
Alimin
