vga16fb display size problems (Re: Live CD X autoconfiguration)

Tue Jan 18 19:11:15 CST 2005

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:27 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> According to Colin, there is currently no reliable way around this.  On some
> systems, it seems to just get it wrong, and a boot parameter is needed to
> work around the problem.

I think it's probably worth considering whether the installer should
attempt vesafb by default, and only fall back to vga16fb if that fails.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org