[Bug 51402] Re: "splash" causes fade-to-white on Toshiba Satellite M40X (ATI Radeon Mobility X600)

[Sam Vilain]

I think it's a radeon-specific bug.  The atyfb (iirc, not near my laptop
atm) driver doesn't work with a lot of radeon cards.  My old Dell
Inspiron 8000 did the same thing with that driver, too.

The reason I logged it against this was my suspicion that the Ubuntu-
specific(?) "splash" extension was making a card-specific choice to try
to use a better framebuffer driver than "vesafb".

Failing in this manner would be fine, but it does exactly the same thing
with the "Safe VGA" menu option from the Live/InstallCD.  That menu
option should *definitely* not use card-specific framebuffer drivers for
the splash; either VGA or VesaFB are the safest.

Perhaps allow "splash=vesa" and "splash=vga", and add those options to
the LiveCD installation menu?

-- 
"splash" causes fade-to-white on Toshiba Satellite M40X (ATI Radeon Mobility X600)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/51402