f17 and ATI RAGE128

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 04:52 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:

> The problem is that grub2 selects inappropriate video modes for ATI cards

This is too broad. Effectively grub2 tries to do modesetting, much the
same as X will; it tries to figure an appropriate graphical mode for the
card/monitor combination in use. On a _few_ configurations this fails,
because either the card or the monitor provide incorrect information
about their capabilities. It's certainly not the case for anywhere close
to all 'ATI cards', or all cards from any manufacturer. It's specific
broken bits of hardware.

I believe grub2 doesn't yet have quite the sophistication X has in place
for handling broken hardware, and hence is likely to hit issues somewhat
more often than X does.
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