[Bug 485252] Re: s3fb driver shows garbled console

[Vernon]

Lucid server doesn't include the s3fb module and the vesafb is
blacklisted by default so you can't boot the Lucid install CD at all on
VirtualPC (even with the "vga=xxx" options, it just uses the vga16fb
driver which is garbled too)

On Lucid desktop though, the s3fb module is included, and by requesting
the blacklisted vesafb module (which won't load) it does actually load
the s3fb module. But by then the card has been initialized by grub
already, so the s3fb works just fine. To actually use the s3fb module
without initializing the card by not passing the "vga=xxx" option
crashes the machine in VirtualPC, so it simply can't be tested in Lucid
at all.

Hmmm, I wonder if the machine crashing is related to the gfx
initialization and possibly the new KMS stuff?

** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing

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s3fb driver shows garbled console
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485252
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