Bug#336450: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14-1-686 doesn't support vga=795 o
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 05:31:03PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:43:57 +0900
> Horms <horms@debian.org> wrote:
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> > > > The reason that it has been changed from modular to builtin,
> > > > is that making it modular was a somewhat problematic patch.
> > > > I hope we can find a solution that doesn't lead us back to
> > > > that code.
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> > > Still, i don't think its modular vs builtin nature should change
> > > things, except if some stuff noz use vesafb, while vga16fb was used
> > > previously.
> >
> > I wouldn't have thought so either, but the problems seem to
> > have appeared at about the same time that the change was
> > made (2.6.13), so I suspect a link.
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> Isn't it simply the change of ramdisk tools? fbcon was always included
> with initrd-tools but not by either of the newer tools.
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> If so, the bug is with both of the newer ramdisk tools, not the kernel.
Yes, I am begining to think you are right. Ignore my noise :)
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Horms
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