Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > For the record: vga16 or whatever this thing is called can't work on > that machine (not at least due to the LCD). It's either vesafb or sisfb > (the latter with a recent enough kernel, of course).
The new installer does use vesafb, apparently it does not work. maximilian attems wrote: > i can confirm that sisfb works for 2.4.2[0-3] > so there is no kernel bug there, no need to reassign. > unfortunately this doesn't work with d-i > please do not close this bug until f6.txt shows the correct switch > to really disable the chosen framebuffer That is properly documented in all but CDROM boots, and I fixed the CDROM boot help yesterday. We could add the sisfb module to our installer, and add a boot parameter to make it be used instead of vesafb. However, the only benefit to doing so over turning off frame buffer is support for unicode characters. -- see shy jo
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