Bug#577461: installation-guide: Updates to textmode activation
Package: installation-guide
Version: 20090901
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hello,
Squeeze apparently needs vga=0 in addition to fb=false, else the kernel
switches to graphical mode very early. This needs to be documented in
the accessibility section, here is a patch, which also mentions how
useful it can be for qemu.
Samuel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
--
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@fnac.net>
Pour un p�re, autant mourir que de faire plein de calculs et pas s'occuper
de son fils
-+- y sur #ens-mim - sombres histoires de zombies -+-
Index: en/boot-installer/accessibility.xml
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--- en/boot-installer/accessibility.xml (révision 60852)
+++ en/boot-installer/accessibility.xml (copie de travail)
@@ -81,14 +81,15 @@
</para>
</sect2>
- <sect2><title>Board Devices</title>
+ <sect2><title>Board Devices and virtualization</title>
<para>
Some accessibility devices are actual boards that are plugged inside the
-machine and that read text directly from the video memory. To get them
-to work framebuffer support must be disabled by using the
-<userinput>fb=false</userinput> boot parameter. This will however reduce
-the number of available languages.
+machine and that read text directly from the video memory. Also, some
+virtualization tools have a textual interface (e.g. <userinput>qemu
+-curses</userinput>). To get them to work framebuffer support must be disabled
+by using the <userinput>vga=0 fb=false</userinput> boot parameter. This will
+however reduce the number of available languages.
</para>
</sect2>
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