Sorry to bring this up.

I just wanted to say that, after a dist-upgrade, the latest Linux kernel
from Jessie backports (4.9.0) boots just fine.

I could never known what was wrong with Linux 4.7.

Thanks for your support,
Emiliano.


On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:09 PM, Brad Campbell <lists2009@???>
wrote:

> On 20/12/16 06:08, marc wrote:
>
>> Hi devuanfanboy,
>>>
>>> Thanks but no, that dind't work.
>>>
>>
>> I have also had an interesting time getting the devuan beta to
>> run with a newer kernel.
>>
>> In my case I have forgone the entire initrd, and built the newest
>> stable kernel from kernel.org with the necessary drivers built in.
>> In some kernel configurations the system boots into a blank screen.
>> In others X doesn't come up.
>>
>> I suspect (but can't confirm) that it has something to do with how
>> the framebuffer or related kernel graphics drivers are initialised.
>>
>> I think there was some sort of changeover between the old style
>> framebuffers and simpleframebuffer ? Please regard this as a
>> rumor, and somebody correct me if it is obviously wrong - as I
>> haven't gotten around to looking at it more. For the record: I was
>> doing this on an intel graphics chipset.
>>
>
> Just as a test, try CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y
>
> I had a hells own time upgrading an older system to a newer kernel and not
> getting any console until I enabled that legacy option.
>
> It might help, then again maybe not. Your post just triggered me to look
> back through my upgrade notes. I think that came in around 4.4 (ish).
>
> Regards,
> Brad
>