Package: installation-guide Version: 20090901 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello,
Squeeze apparently needs vga=0 in addition to fb=false, else the kernel switches to graphical mode very early. This needs to be documented in the accessibility section, here is a patch, which also mentions how useful it can be for qemu. Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@fnac.net> Pour un p�re, autant mourir que de faire plein de calculs et pas s'occuper de son fils -+- y sur #ens-mim - sombres histoires de zombies -+-
Index: en/boot-installer/accessibility.xml =================================================================== --- en/boot-installer/accessibility.xml (révision 60852) +++ en/boot-installer/accessibility.xml (copie de travail) @@ -81,14 +81,15 @@ </para> </sect2> - <sect2><title>Board Devices</title> + <sect2><title>Board Devices and virtualization</title> <para> Some accessibility devices are actual boards that are plugged inside the -machine and that read text directly from the video memory. To get them -to work framebuffer support must be disabled by using the -<userinput>fb=false</userinput> boot parameter. This will however reduce -the number of available languages. +machine and that read text directly from the video memory. Also, some +virtualization tools have a textual interface (e.g. <userinput>qemu +-curses</userinput>). To get them to work framebuffer support must be disabled +by using the <userinput>vga=0 fb=false</userinput> boot parameter. This will +however reduce the number of available languages. </para> </sect2>