[Bug 11541] No framebuffer for sis chipset

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------- Additional Comments From cjwatson at ubuntu.com  2005-09-27 12:51 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #12)
> So, I'm wondering how to do this automatically ? Is lilo able to select the vga
> code ?

Sure; put 'vga=791' in /etc/lilo.conf.

> Is grub able to do that ?

Sure; change the line beginning '# kopt=' in /boot/grub/menu.lst to contain
'vga=791', and run update-grub.

> Why use vga16fb and not vesafb ?

vesafb doesn't work on all hardware either. We can fix your hardware by default
and break others, or we can break your hardware by default and fix others. At
the moment we've gone with vga16fb by default because it's simpler (doesn't
require different vga= arguments in different places) and because, unlike
vesafb, it supports suspend/resume. Still, the real answer seems to be to fix
vga16fb.

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