Bug#267325: reproduced

2004-09-10 Thread Jack Carroll
This report should be merged with 268945. He reported the same symptoms I did with a Radeon video board. It looks like this installer bug is specific to Radeon boards. One possible fix is to eliminate all video mode switching within debian-installer, except for tests of XF86Config-4 file

Bug#267325:

2004-09-09 Thread Jack Carroll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (I paraphrase): > That was probably the installer starting the framebuffer... > You can add debian-installer/framebuffer=false... This option appeared to do what it's supposed to, but did not affect the sidewise shifting of the text-mode display. It caused the appe

Bug#267325: RC1 CD install succeeds [Text mode display shifts 1 char left during reboot]

2004-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Jack Carroll wrote: >About midway through the first reboot, during the installation process, > the screen shifted 1 character to the left, so that the first character of > each line was off-screen and not readable. This continued through both text > mode and ncurses displays. >Following co

Bug#267325: RC1 CD install succeeds [Text mode display shifts 1 char left during reboot]

2004-08-21 Thread Jack Carroll
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: RC1. Followed link on devel/debian-installer to CD download via bittorrent; not sure where it actually went. Downloaded 8/15/2004. uname -a: Linux edgar 2.4.26-1-386 #1 Thu Jul 22 12:46:23 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: