Installed 2.4.2 Kernel - screen goes blank?

[jwilson]

I installed the 2.4.2 Kernel and I got it to boot, but once it boots the screen goes blank.

It will blink every once ina while and I get a glimpse of an error message that says something like this:

"According to /var/run/gdm.id gdm is already running"

"has been mysteriously murdered" ?

I'm guessing that X or Gnome is crapping out somehow. I looked for a error log but I don't really know where exactly to look.

Please help!

[Lorithar]

ummm...

Reboot, and at lilo prompt
start linux with the parameter 1 or single
This starts linux standalone without servers and with the command line interface.

edit your inttab to start the system at runlevel 3 ... (CLI only)

reboot, reconfigure X

It's likely that you did not build in framebuffer capabilities in your kernel... check this ... if you didn't, most likely you should.

[jwilson]

Thanks Lorithar, I'm not at home so I haven't tried this yet, but I noticed the part about the Frame Buffer Support.

I had read on another thread where there are two options needed in the Kernel config:
1. Vesa VGA Graphics console
2. Advanced low level driver options

I found these in "Frame Buffer Support", but the options are greyed out so I can't select them.

Is there another option that I have to select to make these two available?

[kuber]

I had the same problem. What I ended up doing is just loading my old config in xconfig. It should be at
/usr/src/linux-x.x.x/.config
Where linux-x.x.x is your old kernel source.
It should work now. You can always modify this config if there are other things you need.

Kuber

[jwilson]

Sounds good, I'll try these things out. Really appreciate the help.

I look forward to the day when I can become of assistance to someone as myself! ;)