Vesafb testing

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:19:12PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:

> I did these tests with amd64-generic 2.6.15-5.7 and the latest
> acpi-support, usplash, etc. packages. STD worked perfectly in Breezy
> for me. In current dapper, it works as well (in both cases), the only
> regression is that I do not see the text mode screen with the two
> progress bars on suspend any more. They were useful to see that the
> computer was still 'doing' something; now the screen just goes black
> and the computer powers off after a while.

That's currently inevitable as part of making the framebuffer more 
robust.

> When I activate vga=769 (b), the only visible difference in the whole
> boot/suspend/resume/shutdown process is that the usplash image has
> wrong colors (cyan for the Ubuntu word, blue/red for the slider, green
> for 'ok'). I have the same boring 80x25 text mode virtual consoles
> like before.

Are you sure it's 80x25 and not 80x30? What does /proc/fb say? Does 
suspend still work?

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