reassign 529879 vbetool thanks Quoting Leon van Dommelen (debian@dommelen.net): > 1) The screen would blank after the message > > "Saving VESA State...Allocated buffer at 0x2010 (base is 0x0) ES: 0x0201 EBX 0x0000" > > Pressing C-Alt-Del produces a message: > > "vbesave exited outside the normal code flow" > > Note that the machine has a WXGA screen. > > Boot options like noapic, nolapic, acpi=off, vga=normal, vga=792, etc > have no effect. > > Based on a post on the net, I edited /etc/init.d/vbesave and returned > a "log_end_msg 1" and an "exit 1" just before it runs vbetool vbesave. > This prevents the hang. > > However, now the screen will do dead whenever it tries to change into > video mode. Using vga=... and/or noapic nolapic will get through the boot > until it apparently wants to boot into X. > > Based on web sources, I renamed /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm to K70gdm which > allows me to get the text login screen. But the screens goes dead on > a "startx". > > I looked for /usr/share/hal/fdi/information to try to turn off using > saved VESA states using some quirk, but the directory does not exist. That bug apparently belongs to vbetool. Lert's reassign. As the rest of the install is successful, nothing is left to be handled by the Debian Installer team, imho. Thanks for your report.
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