Comment 28 for bug 513273

Jamie-

Yes, your proposal is sound.

Basically, all I think we need to do is "downgrade" the versions of
seabios and/or vgabios that we have in Ubuntu to precisely match those
that upstream QEMU generated to produce their version. We could do
that by using an epoch-hack, or by cherry picking off each of the
commits in our slightly newer version of these packages.

Honestly, I wish someone who's motivated to help fix -vga std would
step up and identify the one (or more) commits to vgabios or seabios
that causes this regression, and then we'd just revert that one commit
against the upstream code. Unfortunately, that person is probably not
me, as I only ever use the default -vga driver which is cirrus, or I
use something like Eucalyptus or virsh and run my VMs headless. In
this sense, this bug is very low priority as compared to the dozens of
others that I need to solve before Lucid releases.

Thanks,
:-Dustin