Package: debian-installer Severity: important
During my first attempt to install Debian on my system, the installer defaulted to using a framebuffer mode. During installation(specifically when I was supposed to enter the host name, even though I dont think this matters) I tried to use Alt-F2, Alt-f3 to see the debug messages. Unfortunately, the screen messed up totally, the cursor shifted to a top right part of the screen and my input was getting displayed there. There were red blocks everywhere. After entering the hostname, i couldnt see anything happening, the whole screen was filled with random blocks etc. I had to abort installation. I read up on the bootup parameters, and switched framebuffer off during install, and the installation went off flawlessly this time. I wasn't using any boot parameters at all. In the second attempt, I only used the parameter to set framebuffer off. So this was using the default 2.4 kernel. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci|fgrep -i vga 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1) Monitor: LG Flatron E700S -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
