Re: 2.5.26 broken on headless boxes

Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:18:59 +0100


On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:04:54PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> You have enabled CONFIG_VT without CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE and
> CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE. It is illegal configuration.

Huh. So CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE is not enough any more? I really do think
this should be documented in Config.help.

> To fix oopses, either enable 'Framebuffer devices' under 'Console
> drivers' section (you do not have to enable any fbdev driver, just
> check this option...), or disable CONFIG_VT. See arch/*/kernel/setup.c
> for explanation, no code in VT subsystem kernel expects conswitchp == NULL,
> but couple of architectures leaves sometime conswitchp uninitialized.

well, this is on x86 ...

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