a small problem with my 2.6.0 kernel setup

Howdy folks, I just installed the 2.6.0 kernel on my sony vaio laptop and I've run into a small problem. I can't get a terminal to run in X. When I start xterm, the window manager draws the window but the shell prompt doesn't show up. This works fine if I reboot with 2.4.23. In 2.6.0, I can login normally on the console and get shell prompt there. I'm assuming that I haven't configured something correctly but I'm a bit stumped as to what. Does anybody have any ideas? Note to other sony vaio owners, the 2.6.0 kernel will not boot with the PnPBios driver enabled. I believe this is because the vaio line of laptops have buggy BIOS's. Cheers, Ben -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
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