On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: [..] > Sisfb should work on this hardware as of 2.4.18, but I am not sure. It's > been a while since that came out. 2.4.20 is the oldest one I positively > remember to contain a working sisfb. i can confirm that sisfb works for 2.4.2[0-3] so there is no kernel bug there, no need to reassign. > But is it really the sis framebuffer driver that is activated during > boot, and not eg vga16 or some other generic driver? AFAIK, there is no > such thing as "auto-config" for framebuffers; one has to positively > choose one by the kernel command line. Even if you compile all of them, > none will be activated if no video=xxx is given. So, appending > video=sisfb:off won't have any effect if another framebuffer driver is > started with another video= switch. the isolinux.cfg of the d-i iso image contains a "vga=normal" switch but no video, don't know if "vga=normal" already enables a framebuffer or if there is another place with some video switch? > Some old Debian installer (which I used about two years ago when I for > the last time yet installed Debian on a 630 based laptop) did start > vga16 - with the very same result that Maximilian experiences. I don't > recall exactly what I did to work around this problem, but I assume it > was appending "vga16:off" or something like this. unfortunately this doesn't work with d-i please do not close this bug until f6.txt shows the correct switch to really disable the chosen framebuffer take a look at this patch below (no idea which patchlevel d-i uses and about the controll characters): regards max --- a/isolinux/f5.txt 2003-12-17 15:34:18.000000000 +0100 +++ b/isolinux/f5.txt 2003-12-22 18:49:29.000000000 +0100 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ 0fHARDWARE PARAMETER TO SPECIFY07 Monochrome monitor 0fmono07 -Disable framebuffer for monitor 0fvideo=vga16:off07 +Disable framebuffer for monitor 0fdebian-installer/framebuffer=false07 IBM PS/1 or ValuePoint (IDE disk) 0fhd=0bcylinders0f,0bheads0f,0bsectors07 IBM ThinkPad 0ffloppy=thinkpad07 IBM Pentium Microchannel 0fmca-pentium no-hlt07 -- free software is not free at all, and "actually a different form of monopoly" ARLENE MCCARTHY member of the european parliament (labour party) -> http://swpat.ffii.org/#guardian-nhill030619 support real limits on patentability -> http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html
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