On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 06:31:40PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hi Mathieu, > > I would prefer if we just passed "nomodeset" to the Linux kernel in the > installer image (in the installer image only) in order to disable all those > funny drivers in the first place. > > Then, grub would use vesa in order to initialize graphics - which should have > seen testing for... forever... years. > > We could use "set gfxmode=..." in grub in order to set a specific graphics > mode. > > (The Linux kernel module is called uvesafb--but it should be picked up > automatically) > > (Use "vbeinfo" in the grub prompt in order to find out whether it's using > VESA) > > I don't think it's wise to complicate bootup when we could just use vesa. > There's nothing wrong with it as far as I know...
Not using KMScon would prevent support for the Chinese and Japanese language during install, would it not? Currently there is no support because · the Chinese and Japanese locales are not added to the installer, it only includes glibc-utf8-locales, · there is no translated PO file for the installer yet anyway, but otherwise it would work, would it not? However, this means in particular that · when using KMScon, the installer should change the locale that gets used once it is selected, · when using mingetty, the locale should only be changed for languages other than Chinese and Japanese, · the console font should be changed to match the locale similar to console-setup on Debian. Maybe some of this is already supported, I don’t know. Regards, Florian
