Lost my CONSOLE after 2.6.6 upgrade

From: Bill Moseley (moseley_at_hank.org)
Date: 05/29/04

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    I just upgraded from 2.4.21 to 2.6.6 on an Athlon machine with a Matrox
    G550 video card and when (I assume) it switches to framebuffer mode I
    don't have a console anymore.

    When I boot I see my BIOS page and then it shows the message that it's
    first trying to boot from CD, then it boots from IDE0 and I get the lilo
    prompt. Then when it starts booting linux I see a few normal lines of
    the boot process then the screen changes back to the screen that was
    before lilo ran -- the screen showing my BIOS setup. And it stays that
    way.

    I'm able to (blindly) login and startx, though.

    I have a laptop that I upgraded to 2.6.5 a few weeks ago and that works
    fine.

    I'll include a small selection of my kernel config from the non-working
    2.6.6 and from the working laptop 2.6.5. And also I'll show the same
    config options from my previous working 2.4.21.

    Update: I just tried again wth all the CONFIG_LOGO_ items disabled,
    still same problem.

    Any ideas??

    moseley@bumby:~$ egrep '(CONSOLE|FB|FRAMEBUFFER|VGA|LOGO)' /boot/config-2.6.6-xfs-athlon | grep -v ^
    CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_FB=y
    CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y
    CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
    CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_LOGO=y
    CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_MONO=y
    CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y
    CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y

    moseley@bumby:~$ ssh laptopwired
    Password:+
    Linux laptop 2.6.5-xfs-toshiba #1 Sat May 22 19:29:41 PDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

    Last login: Sat May 29 13:18:47 2004 from bumby

    moseley@laptop:~$ egrep '(CONSOLE|FB|FRAMEBUFFER|VGA|LOGO)' /boot/config-2.6.5-xfs-toshiba | grep -v
    CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_FB=y
    CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y
    CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
    CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_LOGO=y
    CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y
    CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_CLUT224=y

    The old 2.4.21:

    moseley@bumby:~$ egrep '(CONSOLE|FB|FRAMEBUFFER|VGA)' /boot/config-2.4.21-xfs-athlon | grep -v ^#
    CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_FB=y
    CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
    CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
    CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y
    CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
    CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
    CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
    CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
    CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES=y
    CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y

    moseley@bumby:~$ dmesg | egrep -i '(console|vga|framebuffer)'
    Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
    vga16fb: initializing
    vga16fb: mapped to 0xf8807000
    fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
    Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30

    moseley@laptop:~$ dmesg | egrep -i '(console|vga|framebuffer)'
    Console: colour dummy device 80x25
    vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xc8800000, size 8192k
    fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
    vga16fb: initializing
    vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
    fb1: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
    Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 

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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org
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