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Re: Booth at FSCONS 2012



On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 23:05 +0100, Per Andersson wrote:
> >> Please confirm that everything is now OK :-)
> >
> > I found a few other issues:
> >
> > * In order to not blank the screen when installing I added kernel parameter
> >
> > diff --git a/babelbox-grub b/babelbox-grub
> > index fc30411..f7e09ee 100644
> > --- a/babelbox-grub
> > +++ b/babelbox-grub
> > @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ menuentry 'BabelBox install' --class debian --class
> > gnu-linux --class gnu --clas
> >         insmod ext2
> >         set root='(hd0,1)'
> >         echo    'Loading Linux ...'
> > -       linux    /srv/vmlinuz video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788
> > priority=critical console-keymaps-at/keymap=us
> > keyboard-configuration/x
> > +       linux    /srv/vmlinuz video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788
> > consoleblank=0 priority=critical console-keymaps-at/keymap=us
> > keyboard-
> >         echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
> >         initrd  /srv/initrd.gz
> >  }
> 
> Ok, this patch was worthless it needs something else to not blank
> the screen during installation. Maybe noacpi noapic etc?
[...]

Well those are useful for a nostalgia trip but I can't quite see how
they would help to solve the screen-blanking problem.

If you're using the graphical installer then you presumably need to
disable the X screen blanker somehow.  That might require adding a check
to the relevant udeb.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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