Fred Derf Veteran Posted March 17, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 17, 2004 Debian does not yet have precompiled 2.6.4 kernels on apt-get and I was having some issues with 2.6.3. My own self-compiled kernel did not fix my vga=791 problem. I still have to use vga=normal or vga=ask 2.6.3 also had an odd delay when X first started before the pointer would move. I could type with the keyboard but I needed to move the mouse for a few seconds before it would begin to respond. Then one day it didn't begin to respond. I reran the xf86config many times and tried all of the mouse drivers and I couldn't get it back. The 2.4.24 kernel didn't have any delay and now that I have 2.6.4 the delay is back but it does begin to respond after a few seconds of trying. I managed to get 2.6.4 working with lilo by skipping the initrd stuff. I used the mkinitrd utility and it seemed to create a valid file (we at least the size of the file seemed reasonable) but lilo didn't like it. Is there a disadvantage in booting directly to the hard disk as opposed to using an initial ramdisk? I am not sure I get the logic. Incidently that is the core question of this post. The rest is just background... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bladerunner81 Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 i'm at the moment running on a 2.6.4-love2 kernel without any issues. the initrd-support has to be compiled into the kernel, but i'm sure you did that. i know of quite some problems in the vanilla-kernel regarding initrd & bootsplash, so your problem could come down to that, in that case i suggest a mm-branch kernel or even the love-sources (get them from gentoo, do a search on their forums), because they have heavy patching against the main kernel branch applied to fix this problems. initrd is only used for bootsplash & "hardware detection" on boot, AFAIK. i don't use it. for your vga-problem: could be a issue with the framebuffer-driver. make sure to enable only vesa-vga graphics support and under "console display driver support" enable "video mode selection support" & "framebuffer console support". also be sure to select the right drm-driver for your graphics card (if it is supported by the kernel). other probs with the 2.6.x-branch are the changes that need to be applied to the basic system tools like modutils etc. i use gentoo which did the magic for me and updated the needed packages to the latest availlable, no clue about debian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 It shouldn't be a problem with 2.6.x kernels. You probably didn't configure the kernel right. Make sure that you enable the framebuffer in the menuconfig, xconfig, whatever correctly. I have never had a problem and I have tried most varieties of the 2.6.x kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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