2.6.13 breaks vga= support?

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I've been using 2.6.11 with Splashy, passing "vga=791" with GRUB.  I
upgraded to 2.6.13, and now if I pass "vga=791", it boots blind, so to
speak: nothing is displayed on the screen at all, but from watching
hard disk activity I can tell it's booting.

I found this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/c56d269e6e2640d5/b3eb81312b468d39?lnk=st&q=2.6.13+vga%3D791&rnum=2&hl=en#b3eb81312b468d39

I'm far from an expert on something like this.  Do I understand this
to mean that 2.6.13 doesn't support passing VESA modes with "vga="?