Re: 2.6.0-test3: matrox framebuffer halts booting?

From: Petr Vandrovec
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 08:38:48 EST


On 12 Aug 03 at 13:34, Jurriaan on adsl-gate wrote:
> If I try to boot a self-compiled kernel with the matrox framebuffer, the
> booting process halts after 'Freeing unused kernel memory'.
>
> After that, the system isn't hung (numlock works, ctrl-alt-del works)
> but it also doesn't boot (not reachable over the network, blindly
> logging in doesn't work). Before that, the framebuffer seems to work - I
> see a resolution change and a penguin boot-logo.

Did you tried whether alt-sysrq-p or shift/ctrl/alt-scrolllock do not
produce some reasonable hint about where it got stuck?
Petr

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