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kuber
03-22-2001, 11:17 PM
Ok... I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.2... When I select my new kernel in lilo the screen reads that it is loading 2.4.2 but then the screen just goes blank.. However, my disk access light is going. It is not like it hangs..

Any suggestions what I did wrong?

Thanks,
kuber
Tyr-7BE
03-22-2001, 11:20 PM
problem with your video card? Did you compile in support for it?
kuber
03-22-2001, 11:55 PM
Well, I have a diamond viper 770 which is basically a rage 128 I believe.. I compiled that in... Still doesn't work... ??

kuber
Aikidoka
03-23-2001, 12:37 AM
The Viper 770 is a TNT Ultra2. You need the nvidia driver.
Daedra
03-23-2001, 01:27 AM
Check and see if if "Vesa VGA Graphics console" and "Advanced low level driver options" are enabled under "Frame-buffer support" if they are not then select "Y" and remake your bzImage or what ever and reboot
Daedra
03-23-2001, 01:27 AM
Check and see if if "Vesa VGA Graphics console" and "Advanced low level driver options" are enabled under "Frame-buffer support" if they are not then select "Y" and remake your bzImage or what ever and reboot
Lorithar
03-23-2001, 08:33 AM
*grins*

Seems Daedra learned the same way I did about this .. .(the hard way) ... *chuckles* You need the low level Vesa stuff to make a standard video card look like a framebuffer to the kernel. ...

You will find these options under character devices I believe.
willk
03-23-2001, 08:35 AM
...what Daedra and Lorithar said.....
kuber
03-23-2001, 11:12 AM
Cool.. Got it going. Thanks all!
PLBlaze
03-23-2001, 01:09 PM
See if you can give vga option on lilo's prompt eg. vga=normal, it should use plain text mode and let you see what's going on.Hope this helps.