Rebuilt kernel => no consoles?

[David Abrahams]

Alan Mckinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> writes:

> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:40 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just rebuilt the ubuntu 2.6.15 kernel from source (and applied the
>> linux-phc patch) and I get no consoles with the new kernel when either
>> "vga=791" or "splash" appear in the boot parameters.  I do get gnome,
>> but ctrl-alt-F1 gives me a blank screen.  Does anyone know what I did
>> wrong?  I didn't do anything special to include restricted modules,
>> but I don't think my hardware depends on them.  Any help much
>> appreciated!
>
> Funny you should mention that, I made the same mistake recently on
> another distro... A few settings that are easy to miss:

I just realized I could probably check this by doing "make menuconfig"
again, so I did.

> Device drivers -> Character devices -> Virtual terminal

Can't find anything called "Virtual terminal" under 
Device drivers -> Character devices

> Device drivers -> Graphics support -> Console display driver support
>

At this point I see:

   --- VGA text console
   ---   Video mode selection support
   <M> MDA text console (dual-headed) (EXPERIMENTAL)
   <M> Framebuffer Console support
   [ ]   Framebuffer Console Rotation
   [ ] Select compiled-in fonts

> You need a frame buffer to use vga=791 or splash, which one did you
> select, 

By "which one" you mean "which frame buffer?"  I don't know.  Can you
tell from the above?

> and what is your video hardware?

ATI FireGL 5200 onboard video in a Thinkpad T60p.

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Dave Abrahams
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