Home user here. I've been running development-sources but had an Alsa problem so I tried gentoo-dev-sources to see if that would fix things before I reported it. (It did not so that's a second bug report - not this one.) However, in trying out 2.6.7-r11 on my Compaq Presario R3070us I ran into a new issue. The screen goes blank during most of the boot process! The boot start, goes through BIOS and grub, and then starts loading the kernel. After about 1 second the screen goes black and stays that way until almost the end of all of the init scripts, at which time it comes back. Once the boot has finished I can scroll back in the console and see everything that happened, but while it's booting I cannot. This does not happen with 2.6.6, nor with 2.4 series kernels. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with eyes open Actual Results: As described above Expected Results: Should be able to watch boot process flash root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7 -gentoo-r11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2 /share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/ config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/shar e/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf /xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.e du/pub/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://www.zentek-international.com/mir rors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr encode esd fluidsynth f oomaticdb gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib jack jack-tmp fs java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozcalendar mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype usb video_cards_radeon x8 6 xml2 xmms xv zlib" flash root # flash root # lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5833 (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5838 0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4347 (rev 01) 0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4348 (rev 01) 0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 16) 0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349 0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c 0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342 0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller 0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434d (rev 01) 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV250 5c61 [Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+] (rev 01) 0000:02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03) 0000:02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01) 0000:02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev 01) 0000:02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8201 (rev 01) 0000:02:07.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0000:02:07.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0000:02:07.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) flash root #
Hi - I solved this today with help from Gentoo Users. The problem was (apparently) something I was doing wrong with framebuffer support. I changed the options in the kernel build and now I can see everything. I'll close the bug, or you can unless you think there's something here to look at. Thanks.
