Bug#167240: BF2.4 installer kernel should NOT use VGA16 FB by default.

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#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?

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.

> 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.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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