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

[Paul Sladen]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Marcus Bauer wrote:
> 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).

In what particular way is either vesafb/vga16fb ''looking rubbish''?

Certainly, PC99 mandates 256-colour Vesa-modes, so it should work on
anything made in the last 7 years.

>  debian-installer/framebuffer=false

framebuffer -> able to draw Unicode text.

	-Paul
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