• Bug#265107: FWD: Re: Bug#265107: sarge installer RC1 screen problem!

    From Joey Hess@1:229/2 to Joey Hess on Thu Aug 12 02:50:08 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    ----- Forwarded message from Jeremy Deininger <[email protected]> -----

    From: Jeremy Deininger <[email protected]>
    Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:35:47 -0700
    To: Joey Hess <[email protected]>
    Subject: Re: Bug#265107: sarge installer RC1 screen problem!
    User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803)

    Thanks so much! That worked great!
    -Jeremy



    Joey Hess wrote:

    Jeremy Deininger wrote:


    Immediatly after booting the install kernel for the 1st time off of the >>cdrom, my laptop LCD screen starts to wildly flicker and is mostly >>un-readable (I can see enough to tell it's at the "choose a language" >>screen)... I have a DELL Latitude C400, it should be using the i830 >>module for video. Seems all my text mode terminals suffer from this >>flickering. I am unable to continue the install.



    Try passing debian-installer/framebuffer=false at boot.





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