Bug#290366: vga= parameter
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:07:57AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Well, the installer docs do suggest passing vga=771 for machines with
> display problems. Mostly these seem to be laptops there the vga16fb cuts
> off part of the screen.
>
> I guess that we could try turing vga=0x301 (ie 769) on, or 771 on by
> default in unstable now and see what breaks. Don't know enough about it
> to know which of the two numbers is more likely to work though.
IIRC you don't get suspend-to-RAM if you pass vga=anything, since vesafb
doesn't support it.
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2005-April/006828.html
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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