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Comment 27 for bug 201591

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Peter Garrett (peter-garrett) wrote : Re: [Bug 201591] Re: atyfb regression - screen blank except for blinking cursor after fbcon vtswitch

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:11:41 -0000
Harri <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'm not that optimistic here. The fix did not show on the daily live
> CDs by now (04/03). The feature has been switched off (i.e. you get the
> default 25 lines display), but if you try "vga=0x318" on the kernel
> command line then you will still get just the blinking cursor.

Here I have the 2.6.24-15 kernel, which was included in a recent update,
and it appears to be working fine with vga=791. The console switching
works, and the framebuffer seems to be as expected. Do you have
linux-generic and/or linux-image-generic installed? You need the modules
as well as the kernel itself, and those metapackages will pull in what is
needed.

For example:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/linux-image-2.6.24-15-generic
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-15-generic