[Breezy] vpnc wish and problem, usplash

[Carey O'Shea]

Paul Sladen wrote:

>>Yeah this is a known bug, but it can be fixed however I don't know how. 
>>My laptop suffers from the same problem, but only on Ubuntu and Debian. 
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>One solution maybe to use the 640x400 mode that the machines boot in and
>which is the 'standard' vga mode, rather than 640x480 which is what vga16 is
>switching it into.
>
>Also need to check whether this:
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140848
>
>got applied which fixes a related timing issue in vga16fb and probably
>explains the video corruption if the display is stretched.
>
>	-Paul
>  
>
Are there any disadvantages of the 640x400 mode?

These laptops really shouldn't require the vga=771 option for install 
(which disables usplash btw, and if you remove it usplash will be 
distorted), as they don't for other operating systems, which do have 
hibernate/suspend features that work just as good as Ubuntu.

I remember that there were some other disadvantages for some chipsets 
that couldn't use framebuffer? I can't seem to get my head around the 
problem.