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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 01:25 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:11:15AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: 
> > I think it's probably worth considering whether the installer should
> > attempt vesafb by default, and only fall back to vga16fb if that fails.
> 
> It does, but as we discussed vesafb won't work unless you pass a
> vga=<blah> parameter, and if you pass that then vesafb generally seems
> to succeed. Only on some hardware it might look like rubbish.

Well, we /know/ that on some hardware vga16fb looks like rubbish while
vesafb works (hurrah for the craptop). I'd still tend towards thinking
vesafb is going to work in a wider range of situations.

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