f17 and ATI RAGE128

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Tue May 29 14:00:25 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 20:22 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> > 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?

Only all the things wrong with VBE, which I don't especially feel like
repeating yet again.

Graphical bootloader is not my favorite idea.

- ajax
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