[Bug 246269] Re: Switched from vesafb to uvesafb, but uvesafb can't work without v86d

[Fahim]

Thanks Leann! Took your suggestion and installed the latest kernel (and
re-installed usplash and the corresponding ubuntu theme package; I think
I already had v86d installed manually before)

As the system went down, got the usual red screen with white bars I saw
when I had usplash installed. In any case, was more interested to see
what would happen as the system came back up: I didn't get a completely
blank screen (instead got a message from a monitor something along the
lines of it not supporting that display mode/resolution). But more
importantly, proceeded to gdm!!! :)

On another good note, also I'm no longer seeing the VBE-related errors
in the dmesg logs

fahim at fahim-gx280:~$ uname -a
Linux fahim-gx280 2.6.27-1-server #1 SMP Sun Aug 24 00:04:57 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux


fahim at fahim-gx280:~$ dmesg | grep vesa
[    3.170630] uvesafb: Intel Corporation, Intel(r)915G/915GV/910GL Graphics Controller, Hardware Version 0.0, OEM: Intel(r)915G/915GV/910GL Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS, VBE v3.0
[    3.180005] uvesafb: VBIOS/hardware supports DDC2 transfers
[    3.190005] uvesafb: monitor limits: vf = 75 Hz, hf = 80 kHz, clk = 140 MHz
[    3.190005] uvesafb: scrolling: redraw
[    3.200006] uvesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 7872k, total 7872k
[   34.440635] uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x14f, err=0). Trying again with default timings.
[   34.610635] uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x14f, err=0). Trying again with default timings.
fahim at fahim-gx280:~$ 

I'll try rebooting and/or cold starting the system a couple of times
just in case...

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Switched from vesafb to uvesafb, but uvesafb can't work without v86d
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246269
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