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Bug#481063: marked as done (linux-image-2.6.25-1-686: vga=791 gets 'undefined video mode number')

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and subject line linux-image-2.6.25-1-686: vga=791 gets 'undefined video mode number'
has caused the Debian Bug report #481063,
regarding linux-image-2.6.25-1-686: vga=791 gets 'undefined video mode number'
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- Package: linux-image-2.6.25-1-686
Version: 2.6.25-1
Severity: normal

specifying vga=791 on the grub kernel command line gets 'undefined video mode number'
in previous kernels that never caused a problem.


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.14      Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.91b       tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools            3.3-pre11-4 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 recommends:
pn  libc6-i686                    <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.25-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.25-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.25-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.25-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.25-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.25-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.25-1-686:
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.25-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.25-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.25-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.25-1-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.25-1-686: true
  shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
  linux-image-2.6.25-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.25-1-686:


--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 'edd=off' on the kernel command line fixes this problem.
It makes the Debian kernel usable for me again since I have problems with uvesafb + v86d also ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505977 ).

I'd still like to know why I don't need 'edd=off' with 2.6.26.7 from kernel.org to use 'vga=791'.

Hugo



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