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Digilent kernel in Xillinux

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I'm not sure if anybody else is having this problem, but I cannot get the full Digilent kernel to work for me with Xillinux.  Could anyone give an extremely dumbed-down step-by-step on how to do this?  I would appreciate it greatly.  Thanks.

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    I've used your .config to recompile the kernel and successfully build zImage file. I've replaced it with the zImage of a proven rich-kernel SD card (which can successfully run startx and go into ubuntu). However, the shell prompt redirected to serial port and the VGA monitor only displays the Xillybus image indefinitely. When I type "startx" in the serial port shell prompt, it reports "no screen is found".

    What went wrong? The behaviour is different from the pre-build rich-kernel.

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    I've used your .config to recompile the kernel and successfully build zImage file. I've replaced it with the zImage of a proven rich-kernel SD card (which can successfully run startx and go into ubuntu). However, the shell prompt redirected to serial port and the VGA monitor only displays the Xillybus image indefinitely. When I type "startx" in the serial port shell prompt, it reports "no screen is found".

    What went wrong? The behaviour is different from the pre-build rich-kernel.

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    I will need some more details about what you did exactly: What kernel sources, which device tree, in short, exactly how your setting differs from the out-of-box Xillinux one (and which Xillinux version you differ from).

    I can only speculate that you've used your own kernel sources without patching them, so the driver for the VGA interface was not there. So as far as the kernel is concerned, there was no VGA adapter.