Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] console fb: init blackout. (CyberBlade/i1)

[James S. <jsi...@in...>]

> When defining FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE on my system, kernels
> 2.6.3 and 2.6.4 will black out the screen while the kernel
> is booting (so fast I cannot see any line from the kernel
> messages). X comes up normally, and everything else seems
> to work fine too (only the VC's stay black when I try to
> visit them with control-alt-F1 etc).
> 
> 2.6.1 did not have this. (Don't know about 2.6.2).
> 
> If there is anything I can do to help you figure out what
> the problem is, please tell.
> 
> (Personally I don't use the console framebuffer, so I just 
> comment it out).
> 
> 
> Video: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a)
>        VGA-onboard on a MS 6368 motherboard

First of all in your lilo.conf what do you have vga= set to.
Plus are you using a fbdev X server?

> #
> # Graphics support
> #
> CONFIG_FB=y
> # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
> CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000=y

Unset this option. You don't have this card.

> # CONFIG_FB_IMSTT is not set
> CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y

I recommend disabling this driver.

> CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
> # CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_I810 is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_RADEON_OLD is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_KYRO is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set
> CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT=y
> # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
> 
> #
> # Console display driver support
> #
> CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
> # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set
> CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
> 
> # (note: I just edit-ed this option in again, as I'm typing
> # this from a non-frame-buffer kernel)
> CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

It shoudl work. I don't know if the Trident driver works since I liack 
that hardware.