Luis M wrote: > In order to allow the framebuffer to be started by the kernel at boot, > vga=xxx is required. For 2.6.14 kernels and up, vesafb must be > compiled-in, not as module, so, this makes things simpler for people > who want an image at boot.
Note that anything that requires prompting the user by default for
obscure vga=xxx values[1] won't be enabled by default in the installer.
FWIW, the Debian installer already knows when a basic framebuffer can be
used, since it uses this with bogl itself. It does this without vga
parameters though, in the vast majority of cases.
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see shy jo
[1] Or that requires guessing at them in any way that's more likely to
cause breakage than what we do now.
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