Re: still no framebuffers in 2.6.25 (i386 sid)

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
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> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I posted the fact that vga=791 did not work with Debian's 2.6.25 kernel
> > on May 12th:
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg01095.html
> >
> > Yesterday I tried installing linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 (2.6.25-6) and the
> > problem persists. There is a bug report:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481063
> >
> > This is for the i386 architecture with Sid. On May 12th I tried 2.6.25-3.
> >
> > That leaves you with the option to recompile the kernel and install
> > uvesafd or install svgatextmode which does not need framebuffers.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Hugo
> Are the options "vga=771", "vga=773", "vga=775" working?

They all get "undefined videomode number".

But the latest stable version of the Linux kernel (2.6.25.9) works w/o a 
problem, as did 2.6.25.3 on May 12th.

So this is definitely a Debian problem, AFAIK.

Hugo