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, 10:59:13AM]:

> > 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?

I got complaints from different people, allways SiS and a friend of mine
has a such beast where I could play around with.

> > 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

Yes, please look in the language list some lines below.

> multibyte support I didn't even know that the console could support
> that.

bterm is used, an UTF-8 terminal emulator runnin on top of the
framebuffer.

> Could the boot menu pages at least tell people about the option to
> disable the framebuffer if they get a blank screen?

IIRC they do. Well, we could make it more precise, since a newbie would
not associate "framebuffer" with "screen failure".

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard
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