[Bug 13786] vga16fb broken on some hardware.

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------- Additional Comments From mdz at ubuntu.com  2005-08-23 03:33 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #14)
> Ok, that's a standard setting that should work.
> 
> After some discussion on IRC (jbailey and mjg59), we've come to the conclusion
> that this problem is the result of several bugs.
> 
> 1) The debian installer should remove the splash config option from the boot
> loader if debian-installer/frame-buffer=false is passed to the installer. Filed
> a bug for this.

Agreed.  What's the bug number?

> 2) usplash needs to fix it's method of putting modules in the initramfs so that
> vga16fb isn't autoloaded. This is why removing "splash" from the config doesn't
> currently disable the module, and atleast allow things to work again.

This is pretty straightforward; just remove modules.d/usplash and instead call
"manual_add_modules vga16fb" from hooks/usplash, and then arrange for modprobe
to run in init.



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