Comment 355 for bug 129910

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:12:09 -0000
fishor <email address hidden> wrote:

> fb modules are black listed becouse of wired issues on suspend/resume.
> So it should be blacklisted by default. Please do not report this bug
> anymore.

<consciously noisy rant>
fishor: You appear to think that this bug should just die quietly, without
being fixed. You also appear not to have read Ben Collins' comments, and
the fact that frame buffer modules *supposedly* can be loaded with vga=xxx
in the most recent hardy kernel.

I have reported a bug against console-setup, in the hope that the bug is no
longer kernel-related. See Bug #205484

People will continue to comment on this bug *until it is properly fixed* .
So far, it isn't fixed.

If the developers do not like the noise, I suggest that they try booting
with vga=791 for example, then attempt to switch to tty2-6 . Until the
behaviour is rectified to work as it has done without issues in every
Linux since way back in kernel 2.2 or so, it isn't fixed.

This bug is making a lot of people unhappy (see subscriber numbers), and
has been unfixed for over six months. A lot of sysadmins will stop using a
distribution that only gives them 80x25 without X, for example. Have fun
trying to use mc, jed, or any number of slang and ncurses console apps
without decent fb resolution and functionality...

</consciously noisy rant>