Bug#474106: video-vesa: does not work on i815

[Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

On Jun 20, 2008, at 6:57 AM, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Debian Live user wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-vesa
> > Version: 1:1.3.0-1
> > Severity: normal
> > File: video-vesa
> >
> >
> > Because the i815 card is misdetected by the X config scripts vesa is
> > used instead of intel driver. However, with vesa the card does not  
> > work,
> > only garbage is displayed on the screen.
>
> Is it better with the latest X packages?

I do not have the board mounted in anything right now so it is not  
exactly easy to test.
Hopefully I will get to this later.

Also it might be that the misdetection only occurs with scripts that  
try to determine the card automatically using debconf like live- 
initramfs does. At least for one card the automatic detection works  
if there is the default  config with no card specified but fails if  
live-initramfs tries to determine the card type using debconf.

Thanks

MS