boot changes with latest rawhide

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Sep 12 15:40:38 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 19:16 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 18:17 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 14:07 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > Anyone noticed that while booting up, that after the "Initializing
> > > hardware....Audio Network etc.." that everything shifts left just a
> > > little and the S in Starting on all of the start up menus can't be seen?
> > 
> > Kernel fb modules are now getting loaded if there's one appropriate for
> > your hardware.  It's entirely possible that some of them have bugs ;-)
> 
> To make sure I understand, are you saying that at the time mentioned
> above during the boot process, that kernel fb modules are being loaded
> at that time and possibly the reason for the shifting is due to some of
> the modules might be buggy?

Correct.

> Or did you mean something else?  And does a bug need to be submitted and
> against what (depends on what hardware?)?  Do I need to post anything
> about my hardware to help see what is related/wrong to the list?

I'd suggest filing against kernel.  At least lspci is needed, I'm sure
davej will chime in if he wants more.  Or reporting to lkml would also
be helpful since I know Dave doesn't really have time to fix up all of
these :/

Jeremy




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