[Bug 539582] Re: VT Consoles 1-6 only display a flickering screen with vga16fb

[ElecCham]

For what it's worth, this bug has been in there for a *long* time...

I ran into it initially trying to install the beta of... maybe Hardy?...
in text mode on a Thinkpad X30, and forgot about the issue amidst some
of the other stuff I ran into.  It's apparently still there in Lucid.
In my case, I get video, but it flickers badly, has black squares in
diagonal lines, and is shifted vertically.

If I remember correctly, it's Hardy that broke it, and Gutsy worked.
But I won't swear to that.  (I am, however, almost positive that it was
the same release for which the i8xx driver went away to be replaced by
the i9xx driver - and the video driver has never worked quite right
since.  Here's hoping for Lucid.)

Should anyone else run into this, the fix^H^H^Hworkaround is to add
"intelfb.blacklist=1" to the installer's command line.

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VT Consoles 1-6 only display a flickering screen with vga16fb
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539582
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