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

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:18:33AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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 also know that on some hardware vesafb looks like rubbish while
vga16fb works; I have a machine that does that right here ...

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]