Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-02-28 @ 12:49:05 (week 09) Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Sorry to get back only now. Haven't been keeping up with my mail due to an overly full agenda and todo list. did you try vga=normal? that should at least get you a readable screen. won't be the best res. I did, but still no

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-05 @ 01:48:40 (week 10) Chris Bannister wrote: Sorry to get back only now. Haven't been keeping up with my mail due to an overly full agenda and todo list. Is there any particular reason you need a later kernel? Other than wanting to try out a couple of new features no, not really.

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-04 @ 19:43:57 (week 09) Florian Kulzer wrote: I think this might be related to the framebuffer driver. Agreed. You can try to modprobe vesafb (or whatever fb module is suitable for your graphics card) from an X root console and see if this helps. I am sorry to say it didn't. It

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 17:10:56 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2007-03-04 @ 19:43:57 (week 09) Florian Kulzer wrote: I think this might be related to the framebuffer driver. Agreed. You can try to modprobe vesafb (or whatever fb module is suitable for your graphics card) from an X

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-21 @ 19:12:39 (week 12) Florian Kulzer wrote: Let me just quickly correct my earlier statement: I think the Debian Linux source packages have the modular vesafb option removed anyway because it caused trouble in the past. I half remembered this and then I mixed things up a bit when

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:11:36PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: Hi, My boss gave me a Dell Latitude D810 to use for work so I didn't have to use my privately owned Acer Ferrari 4000 anymore. First thing I did was install testing on it, which was no problem at all. Next I built a 2.6.20.1

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:48:40 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:11:36PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: Hi, My boss gave me a Dell Latitude D810 to use for work so I didn't have to use my privately owned Acer Ferrari 4000 anymore. First thing I did was install

No text mode display after grub

2007-02-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, My boss gave me a Dell Latitude D810 to use for work so I didn't have to use my privately owned Acer Ferrari 4000 anymore. First thing I did was install testing on it, which was no problem at all. Next I built a 2.6.20.1 kernel (vanilla from kernel.org) and now I have a bit of a strange

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:11:36PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: Hi, My boss gave me a Dell Latitude D810 to use for work so I didn't have to use my privately owned Acer Ferrari 4000 anymore. First thing I did was install testing on it, which was no problem at all. Next I built a 2.6.20.1