GNU bug report logs - #40538
installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:56:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 11:02:57 +0200

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 10:59:10PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I made the following adjustments.

Thank you.  I am impressed by the speed at which you fix things.


> I also confirmed that everything goes well in QEMU, but obviously we’ll
> have to test on hardware.
> 
> Let’s publish an RC2 tomorrow so we can get feedback.

I believe I was mistaken to write about vga=793; it seems it has the
opposite effect and breaks uvesafb.  Anyway that’s only comments in
the patch and commit message, and it is not on master yet.

Regards,
Florian
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