On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >Finally I got round to making a new benh kernel. For people with club > >access, it is here (announcement also below): > >http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Splatt_Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=9957&forum=5 > > Thanks, I got installed the normal one (not the smp). But when I added > a yaboot entry with drakboot, it put lines such as: > image=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]:13,/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/at > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:13,/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:13,/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]:13,/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk > > instead of: > > image=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]:13,/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk I suspect this is more likely an installkernel but than a kernel bug, but what you report is very weird: vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk is not my kernel, it is the normal main kernel. Can you check again what exactly happened? And if you are really using newest benh?
> I used video=radeonfb ; the linux bootstrap was in text mode. Everything > was [OK]. I then started X and it works but when I put the machine to > sleep, and wake it up the sreen displays kind of an ugly zoom on the top > left corner of the former screen and the system is frozen. When I use > the former benh kernel (2.4.20-benh9) the system wakes up, the display > is reactive (although not usable) with a messy display (3 mouse cursors, > horizontal blinky lines everywhere, ...). yes, as Stew says, you need apm_emu. Perhaps I compile it into kernel instead of module to make sure everyone has it. > > Other problem, I still get a the very-very-dark console mode problem > with this new kernel. ie before starting X I can switch to and use every > virtual consoles but once X is started their display is so dark that I > can use them anylonger. > > I don't know if its a X configuration problem or a kernel/driver related > one. no idea:( > Is the radeon of ibook 2.2 700MHz > 7500 or not ? (It is actually a > Radeon Mobility M6 LY). Should I use radeonfb or ofonly ? IIRC 7500 is an M7, but just try what uses best for you and report your findings. d.
