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Bug#290366: marked as done (bootloader doesn't set VESA mode on x86, so vesafb is never loaded)

Your message dated Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:52:45 +0100
with message-id <20140228195245.GA29086@mraw.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#290366: Should this bug be closed ??
has caused the Debian Bug report #290366,
regarding bootloader doesn't set VESA mode on x86, so vesafb is never loaded
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

For vesafb to work, the kernel bootloader needs to set up a VESA mode. 
This is typically done by passing something like vga=0x301 (which will 
set a 256 colour 640x480 display). If this succeeds, vesafb should load 
and work correctly. Otherwise, the system will fall back to vga16fb when 
the vesafb modprobe fails.
 
Currently, vga16fb is loaded unconditionally. I have a machine here that 
works correctly with vesafb but fails with vga16fb.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> (2006-11-14):
> On Monday 13 November 2006 16:09, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> > I accidentally ran into this bug.
> > We currently set the vesafb fbdev in 800x600@75 in images containing
> > the GTK frontend at least: should this bug be closed?
> 
> IMO not as the BR is not about the graphical installer, but about display 
> problems using the newt frontend.

src:debian-installer has:
| commit 63d9d35e4d0306ca3c1ae2b4848140782342a2d1
| Author: Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>
| Date:   Sat Oct 10 12:01:55 2009 +0000
| 
|     Change default video mode for i386/amd64 to vga=788 for the "newt" frontend

so closing this bug report.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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