f17 and ATI RAGE128

[John Reiser]

> Peter, how in general do you want to proceed where we have documented
> cases of graphics mode setting failure in grub2? Do you want individual
> bug reports for each affected bit of hardware? Downstream, upstream?
> What kind of info should be included? Thanks!

What's not good enough about using [the equivalent of] vesafb,
so as to to avoid problems with mode-setting?  Or, use vesafb
unless the PCI vendor:device:version is on a known-good list?

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