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

[Len Sorensen <lsorense@opengraphics.com>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:09:51PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> I got complaints from different people, allways SiS and a friend of mine
> has a such beast where I could play around with.

The thinkpad 560x uses a neomagic 128xd with an 800x600 tft.  it didn't
like it either, but that isn't as common as SiS I guess.

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

Yeah I have always used English so I never though about it.

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

Never heard of bterm before.  It runs on the framebuffer and does fonts?
Interesting.

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

Yeah it might be nice to have a clear message of "Try this if your get a
blank screen on booting and are using an LCD display".  Maybe some LCD
displays just don't handle 640x480 vga mode correctly in some cases
(although hard to believe).

I don't actually remember ever seeing a message about vga16, but I may
have missed it, or it could have been added since the last time I read
them all.

I would be perfectly happy with a clear message about what to do, since
I agree that the UTF support is much more important than a few users of
broken displays.

Len Sorensen