Package: installation-reports Version: N/A; reported 2004-01-27 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Debian-installer-version: beta 1 Machine: notebooks hi when trying to install on notebooks, it happens that the video is unreadable, because it wraps to the bottom, and some lines are lost I have encounterered the problem, as reported in http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200401/msg02507.html but other people noted this, as in http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2003/debian-laptop-200308/msg00401.html the origin of the problem seems to be that: the bootloader passes "vga=normal" (I found it in /cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.cfg) whereas there are other options that work better: I was lucky with vga=771 (that is what knoppix uses), some other people with vga=791 another option is to dump the whole vga/framebuffer idea: the normal Debian kernel that does not use vga/framebuffer has never given me any problem on any PC (and I have strange PCs) a. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tonelli 2.4.24-se1-k7 #1 Sun Jan 11 18:46:51 CET 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Andrea Mennucc "one houndred and fifty - the chicken sings" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
