From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Michlmayr Subject: Re: vga16fb: blank screen with Intel GM965/GL960 on HP 2510p notebook Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:27:08 +0100 Message-ID: <20080322232708.GA32209@deprecation.cyrius.com> References: <20080321163944.GA22068@deprecation.cyrius.com> <1206204017.26934.554.camel@koto.keithp.com> <20080322165817.GD13703@deprecation.cyrius.com> <200803222035.08897.elendil@planet.nl> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdD6p-0003Ri-Pv for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:26:43 -0700 Received: from sorrow.cyrius.com ([65.19.161.204]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1JdD6o-00089r-Hd for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:26:43 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200803222035.08897.elendil@planet.nl> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Frans Pop Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Keith Packard * Frans Pop [2008-03-22 20:35]: > > > 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. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/