Do Dapper kernels not support vesafb? It seems not.

[Miles Lane]

On 3/10/06, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 04:41:51PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
>
> > I have tried specifying "vga=0x027e" on my kernel append line.  This
> > works with Fedora Core, but I just get a black screen with Dapper.
>
> They do, but as far as I know 0x027e isn't a valid VESA mode number.

I have a 1280x768 TFT laptop display.  The special VESA mode is 7e.
I am able to get 1280x768 resolution in Fedora Core 5 Test3 using
vga=0x027e.

I wonder why Fedora's works and Ubuntu Dapper's doesn't?

          Miles