From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718 Description of problem: Giving the boot option vga=828 in all 2.6.0 arjanv kernels causes a blank screen during booting on my IBM T21 laptop It appears that the VESA_FB was compiled into the kernel rpms. 1) If not not, could you do so. 2) If it is, please tell me and I will report the bug to kernel list. This is more important than it seems, because some X11 drivers have less suspends problems when one boots in the vesafb mode. (In particular my THinkpad T21 savage driver) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.0-0.test5.1.45 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. put vga =828 in grub.conf 2. 3. Actual Results: blank screen Expected Results: vesa high screen Additional info:
This regression got reported on the linux kernel list a few times, no-one seems to care. File it in the upstream bugzilla at http://bugzilla.kernel.org