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

Wed Jan 19 06:05:26 CST 2005

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 11:04 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> > 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 ...
> 

Then why using framebuffers in the first place, wouldn't
 debian-installer/framebuffer=false 
the safe way to go?

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Marcus Bauer