Blacklist of vesa-deficient hardware.

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Jan 30 16:08:51 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 06:49 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Thomas M Steenholdt writes:
> > Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >> I've got a laptop that needs "novesa" to start the installer going.  The 
> >> installer won't start without it, and will hang on a blank screen.
> >> 
> >> Do we maintain a blacklist of vesa-deficient hardware, and, if so, which 
> >> bugzilla product do I submit my particulars to?
> >> 
> > 
> > Is "nofb" perhaps what you really need???
> 
> Right.  Working from memory.

We're no longer doing the vga16fb shenanigans, so this should also have
no effect in FC5 test releases :-)

Jeremy




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