Bug#152804: boot-floppies: framebuffer causes Mobile Radeons to lock
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 01:41:03PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> reassign 152804 install-doc
> thanks
>
> On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 02:07, Jim Crilly wrote:
> > I was trying to install Debian on my Dell Inspiron 4100 with a Mobile
> > Radeon in it and it would freeze during install randomly, anywhere
> > between 2 and 10 minutes after bootup. I tracked it down to the vga16
> > framebuffer (found a similar note on a linux-laptop website, but can't find the link
> > now...). I couldn't find any kernel parameter to disable the framebuffer
> > so I compiled a new kernel without fb support, put it on the install
> > floppy and it worked like a charm.
> >
> > I don't see why the fb is enabled anyway since Debian still uses an
> > ncurses install, it just makes it slower (for my hardware anyway).
>
> The framebuffer is important for the language chooser. You can disable
> it on the kernel command line with something like "video=vga16:off".
>
> About the only thing we can do here is add a note to the documentation.
> I'm reassigning this report to the install-doc package.
It was already documented by Richard. But, I added some more details about
what the problems look like and what machines have reported problems.
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