Bug 91982 - (VIDEO VESA)Black screen when booting with vga option
Summary: (VIDEO VESA)Black screen when booting with vga option
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 9
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-05-30 15:51 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-30 15:41:01 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2003-05-30 15:51:13 UTC 
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Description of problem:
when i boot the system with the kerneloption vga=791 the kernel put no output 
on the screen but the system boots up to runlevel 5. When i boot without the 
vga option then i get the kernel messages on the screen.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.4.20-13.9.i686

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
boot the kernel with option vga=791

Actual Results:  black screen

Expected Results:  kernel messages on the screen

Additional info:

CPU: P4 3.00GHZ with activated HT in the BIOS
RAM: 1GB
MB: Intel D875PBZ BIOS P06
Comment 1 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:41:01 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
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persists.

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