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  1. Bug #246269
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 246269

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Harvey Muller (hlmuller) wrote :

Regarding my previous comment above:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/246269/comments/11

When I made the comment above, I was working within a system I had personally built by hand. I manually built the kernel, klibc, and v86d. It of course worked perfectly in that environment. I assumed WRONGLY that since v86d was now being shipped in Ubuntu that it should work there too.

I am now testing an installation on a Dell Inspiron 1420, using the 20080829 daily-live amd64 desktop (Alpha 5) iso which includes kernel version 2.6.27. I can confirm that uvesafb DOES NOT work in this environment. This is documented in the Debian v86d readme. Uvesafb will not work in Ubuntu until Debian/Ubuntu begin shipping v86d built against klibc. Or the user successfully builds v86d against klibc themselves.

uvesafb will not work during boot while v86d is built against glibc. I apologize for the previous noise.