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

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:05:26PM +0100, Marcus Bauer wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 11:04 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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?

No, because then you can't do the full breadth of localisation. While
that's a useful fallback in an emergency, it's not generally acceptable.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]