no display with kernel 2.6.0

[Jack Bowling]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 09:50:25PM +1100, Alimin Bijosono Oei wrote:
> >I downloaded kernel 2.6.0 from
> >>http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/and installed it.
> >>Problem appeared on reboot into the the new kernel. It got to the point
> >>where X was supposed to start but nothing turned up, the screen just
> >>went blank. Has anybody experienced the same thing? The installed 
> fedora
> >>was an upgrade from RH 9 before.
> 
> 
> >How do things go with the rawhide 2.6 kernel ?
> >(Also available at http://people.redhat.com/davej/FedoraCore2/)
> 
> 
> It still gave me the same result, blank screen. By the way, this is a
> Compaq Presario 1500 laptop. Perhaps there is something particular to
> laptop display setting? I was googling and found out that some people 
> also had this kind of experience but that was a while ago during 
> 2.6.0-pre testing phases. I would hope that by now it should have been 
> fixed but it wasn't the case for me. In the end, I decided to do full 
> clean reinstall of Fedora instead of upgrading from existing RH9 
> installation and that solved the problem. Perhaps others want to verify 
> this or perhaps it was just my setting that was wrong somewhere.

All Compaq Presario laptops need to have "Support for Legacy USB"
turned off in the BIOS settings or you will not be able to install
linux. I am replying to your post from my Presario 2110CA so it can be
done.

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Jack Bowling
mailto: jbinpg at shaw.ca