[Bug 204655] Re: Virtual consoles broken in the Alternate Installer

2008-03-29 Thread Harri
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 201591 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201591 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 201591 atyfb regression - screen blank except for blinking cursor after fbcon vtswitch -- Virtual consoles broken in the Alternate Installer https://bugs.la

[Bug 204655] Re: Virtual consoles broken in the Alternate Installer

2008-03-29 Thread Harri
Metoo. VGA is an NVidia Quadro4 980 XGL. I could also reproduce it with a Geforce 8400M GS. Platform is amd64 (Hardy). This seems to be a problem of linux-image-2.6.24-12-generic. For testing I booted this kernel in Sid: Same problem. Is there some option to tell the kernel to use the native font

[Bug 204655] Re: Virtual consoles broken in the Alternate Installer

2008-03-28 Thread Fred Rochet
Confirmed: with alternate and server install on 8.04 beta (i386) P3 1GHz Copermine Geforce FX5200. The system is up and running, I can provide all the log files needed. Say installation is on the way, if you switch to Alt-F2, you can press Enter to activate it. Then you go back to Installer (Alt