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Bug#229904: installation-reports: notebook screen problems



Package: installation-reports
Version: N/A; reported 2004-01-27
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Debian-installer-version: beta 1 
Machine: notebooks

hi

when trying to install on notebooks, it happens that the video is unreadable,
because it wraps to the bottom, and some lines are lost

I have encounterered the problem, as reported in 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200401/msg02507.html
but other people noted this, as in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2003/debian-laptop-200308/msg00401.html

the origin of the problem seems to be that:
the bootloader passes "vga=normal" (I found it in /cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.cfg)
whereas there are other options that work better:
I was lucky with vga=771 (that is what knoppix uses),
some other people with vga=791

another option is to dump the whole vga/framebuffer idea:
the normal Debian kernel that does not use vga/framebuffer has never
given me any problem on any PC (and I have strange PCs)


a.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tonelli 2.4.24-se1-k7 #1 Sun Jan 11 18:46:51 CET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

-- 
Andrea Mennucc
 "one houndred and fifty - the chicken sings"



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