Bug 220368

Summary: yast2-bootloader: use special vga kernel option for fbdev based configurations
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Olaf Dabrunz <odabrunz>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: aosthof, eich, ms
Version: Alpha 1   
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Description Stefan Dirsch 2006-11-13 11:23:16 UTC 
Meanwhile nearly all ATI GPUs need to be driven with the fbdev driver. :-(

Since many users install with a low resolution and afterwards want to configure a higher resolution, the kernel vga option needs to be adjusted. SaX2 could do this itself, but then it will conflict with the setting of yast2-bootloader (next time yast2-bootloader runs the setting witll be overwritten immediately again). Proposal would be that SaX2 writes a meta file with this setting, which is read by yast2-bootloader to resolve this conflict. Something like this:

/etc/sysconfig/framebuffer:
SPECIAL_FBMODE="yes" (default: no)
FBMODE="0x318" (default: unset)
Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2006-11-13 11:25:12 UTC 
*** Bug 219730 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2007-01-14 12:00:34 UTC 
This bug is related to Bug #234142.
Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2007-01-15 10:21:33 UTC 
As requested by aj: FATE #301920
Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2007-04-03 12:27:31 UTC 
I wonder if this isn't also related to perl-Bootloader. Adding Alexander therefore.
Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2007-05-11 06:41:36 UTC 
JFYI
Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2007-08-12 11:30:48 UTC 
Meanwhile Marcus implemented this in SaX2 differently.