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Re: kernel 2.4 and d-i



On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Petr Stehlik wrote:
> The result of this trial is that I passed the moment where the d-i on
> kernel 2.4 freezed (and turned the font color from white to red). Now I
> am at the following stage:
>
> bogl: don't know screen type 2
>
> I remember I faced the same problem with Woody installation but there
> the mysterious "nolangchooser" kernel option helped. No idea what to
> pass into Sarge's install. Neither an idea why this bogl returns again
> and again. What is screen type 2 and why bogl doesn't like it?

<linux/fb.h>:

    #define FB_TYPE_INTERLEAVED_PLANES      2       /* Interleaved planes   */

It would be better if d-i would fall back to text mode if bogl fails this
way...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds



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