On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:02:41PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Well, I finally got my 2.4 kernel to compile, using BenH's tree, rsync'd > and all. But then try to boot using it? Didn't work. What sorts of > details do I need to provide? Are there any "gotchas" I should know > about?
How far do you get? Where exactly does it die? > .... I know that potato requires a little tweaking > to use the 2.4, but I didn't think woody did. It didn't here. > .... Currently I've got the extra > arguments set at video=tdfx:[EMAIL PROTECTED], and I compiled 3dfx into the > 2.4 kernel. You should be able to get away w/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > When I start up with this setting (using the 2.4), I get the > most interesting color scheme, and I can't read any of the console > messages. If I remove the arguments, I get a completely blank screen > (and therefore I can't read the console, either :-) Can you get in remotely and see how it's doing? tdfxfb could have issues once again on PPC machines.. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
