Bug#167240: BF2.4 installer kernel should NOT use VGA16 FB by default.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:53:51PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * Len Sorensen [Thu, Oct 31 2002, 10:10:42AM]:
>
> > panel for it's display (at least on an SiS based system, and on my IBM
> > 560X thinkpad, and a few others I have talked to people using).
>
> SIS? The TLA for Shit In System?
I hate it too.
> Sorry, but AFAIK are SIS users the only group whinning about VGA16. It
> seems that this shared memory controller does not manage plain VGA mode
> correctly.
And the display on the thinkpad 560x? And some other laptop uses?
> > imagine any i386 machine that plain text mode would not work on. I
> > suggest the next boot-floppies for woody have this driver disabled by
> > default (could be as simple as setting the above setting installer's
>
> I guess you do not see any benefit from using framebuffer, correct?
> Well, many people that need more than 8bit-character-screen have a
> different opinion.
During the install? Hmm, so you need the framebuffer to do multibyte
languages? If so, then I accept the purpose. Having never needed
multibyte support I didn't even know that the console could support
that.
Could the boot menu pages at least tell people about the option to
disable the framebuffer if they get a blank screen?
Len Sorensen
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