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Hi, my first experience with unix of any flavor was about 10 days ago with an Ubuntu Live CD. Now I'm up and running with Slack current and gware and loving it. But I don't have much experience so bear with me. I've tried googling but I haven't found anything useful.
Anyway, earlier today I did my first kernel compile (was on 2.4.29, now on 2.6.11.12) in order to try to get ACPI features working on my laptop. Despite the fact that I still can't really suspend (suspend2 seems doomed to catastrophic failure if X is loaded), I did manage to get fan, cpu and video control out of it.
Although the system seems to be running relatively well after my kernel upgrade, I have been having some problems. Namely, I seem to have lost my penguin and am stuck in 640x480x256 mode when booting even though before 1024x768x64k was working fine. Once I startx I can get 1280x800 fine. Just the boot screen and terminal no longer hold as much text.
Also, XFCE completely hangs when I try to log into it, although it was also working fine before. Gnome and KDE work fine as far as I can tell, although it's crashed a few times, especially when I'm switching from X to tty1-6.
Drivers > Graphics Support >
You need to compile in support for framebuffer devices, as well as support for your graphics chipset. It's probably a good idea to include VESA framebuffer support, as well.
As for the penguin, he's under Bootup Logo in the same place.
With regards to XFCE, let's worry about getting the framebuffer to work in console mode first. It could be that it's a related problem (though not likely). About the only other suggestion I could make would be to reinstall XFCE, and even that, I'd wait until your kernel is working first.
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