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

[Len Sorensen <lsorense@opengraphics.com>]

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