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Chameleon => Bug Reports => Topic started by: tempolo on June 23, 2009, 06:27:27 PM

Title: kernel may crash when textmode remains active
Post by: tempolo on June 23, 2009, 06:27:27 PM

I and others with similar hardware (Asus Eee PC 1008HA) have seen it happen that in the early boot stage of the kernel the screen turns all black, with a light grey (or white?) bar at the top left half, at which point the boot process stops.

This happens often if I use just "-v" or even just the boot option "Graphics Mode = no". And it appears to only happen if there is no special graphics kext found, i.e. the default family driver is used.

I suspect something goes wrong setting up the graphics mode then, maybe caused by the default graphics kext.

Whatever the reason, I like this to be known as a potential problem.

Title: Re: kernel may crash when textmode remains active
Post by: zef on June 23, 2009, 09:25:03 PM

This issue has been fixed already. I would really like to roll out a new version...

Title: Re: kernel may crash when textmode remains active
Post by: tempolo on June 24, 2009, 09:15:01 AM

Quote from: zef on June 23, 2009, 09:25:03 PM

I would really like to roll out a new Version...

What's keeping you? Time? Coordination, testing? Can I help? If you give me read-only access to your VCS, I can at least test. As a developer myself, I am also a picky tester.