Bug#222374: d-i melts screen on sis 630 laptop

[maximilian attems <debian@sternwelten.at>]

Package: installation-reports
Version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso 22-Nov-2003
Severity: grave



installer is unusable because right away in the middle of kernel booting
appears a "melting" white screen.

xfree 4.1 and before the old sis driver showed this strange behaviour,
thomas winischhofer cured it by programming good sis drivers:
http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml
here my mini-howto for installing woody on this laptop:
http://debian.stro.at/webgine.htm

don't know what causes the problem, but appears even with
net video=vga16:off
or
net mono

may test any enhanced version of d-i,
this bug affects gericom webgine, webboy

regards
maks attems