No video output under qemu

I had the same results. I can boot the Debian vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-versatile kernel perfectly, but when I try to boot the Ubuntu vmlinuz-2.6.28-4-versatile I get no video output. I cannot even get console output with -monitor stdio. I tested both kernels with no initrd.img and no hard drive. Debian kernel returns kernel panic about no rootfs. The Ubuntu kernel still returns the same results. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 i386 (2.6.27-9-generic) and Qemu version 0.9.1-5ubuntu3.

Omegamoon recompiled the virtual flavour with the attached configuration, resulting in working video. Changes from default are marked with "Omegamoon".

@Emmet - how about attaching a diff against the current Jaunty debian/config/armel/config.versatile? The above config asks me lots of questions that I don't care to answer.

here is a working config against the jaunty kernel, binary for can be found under http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogra/arm/qemu/kernel/ (see the README in that dir)

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.28-5.12

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linux (2.6.28-5.12) jaunty; urgency=low

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