vesa-mode Anaconda install

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 08:20 -0700, Bob Arendt wrote:
> If support for text mode installation is dead (or dying), recent
> traffic on the test & develop list indicates that there's still a
> strong need to have a fall-back installation mode.  Just in case the
> your particular version of Radeon, NVidia, (.. whatever) hardware is
> recognized but doesn't run correctly.
> 
> Perhaps having a simple "vesa" arg to anaconda to force a vesa Xserver
> would provide a quick and simple work-around.  It seems like this might
> be a simple hack to add to anaconda.  A short-hand for xdriver=vesa

nomodeset should do this.  The KMS X driver should fail to bind and then
we should fall back to vesa naturally.  If we don't it's an X driver
bug.

- ajax
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