reassign 471505 debian-installer retitle 471505 vga16fb framebuffer doesn't work on HP 2510p notebook thanks
On Saturday 13 September 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Well, they basically say that we shouldn't load vga16fb. I don't know > the reason d-i loads the different fb modules, so I'm not the right > person to handle this. Frans, maybe you want to tackle this. Not loading vga16fb does indeed work, but also means that we don't have a framebuffer at all since the (built in) VESA framebuffer does not get activated with vga=normal. And with no framebuffer you have a tiny display and only a very small selection of languages. As the VESA framebuffer _does_ work (I've tried both vga=788 and vga=791), a better option would seem to be to just use the VESA framebuffer for all x86 installs by using e.g. vga=788, which is 800x600/16 bits. vga=788 is the same setting we use for the graphical installer and I can't remember (m)any reports that that setting did not work for users. We could still keep the vga16fb as a fallback if people explicitly boot with VGA=normal. Not sure if we should make such a change so short before Lenny...
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