* Frans Pop [off-list ref] [2008-03-22 20:35]:
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Can you use vesafb instead of vga16fb? That should be far more
reliable.
vesafb is built into the Debian kernel, so presumably that works.
I've no idea why debian-installer loads vga16fb. Frans, any idea?
For the graphical installer we force the use of vesafb by directfb, but we
don't do anything like that for the regular installer. So you could try
booting installgui and see if that does work.
installgui works, but that also passes vga=788 and when I pass that to
the normal installer it also works.
Anyway, you didn't answer my original question which was why the
text-based d-i loads vga16fb.
Other option could be to boot with 'install video=vga16fb:off', but
I'm not sure if that's supported.
That doesn't seem to work.
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