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Re: /svn/athena r25349 - trunk/debathena/config/auto-update/debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Aug 3 07:30:58 2011
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 07:30:49 -0400
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To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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On Aug 3, 2011, at 1:19 AM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> Figured I should try the Natty installer kernel/initrd images... while vga16fb is able to end the snow crash and get _something_ displayed, it's less than useful. There's purple garbage in the top ~20% of my screen -- it looks like vga16fb is thinking the screen is 640x400 or so, but hasn't managed to actually tell the graphics card to stop rendering at 1366x768.
That's the symptom I had on the Vostro before you showed up and changed the outcome by measuring it :-)
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> In other words, "I don't think this does what you want on arbitrary hardware".
Fair enough, I'll special case on the cluster hardware. We do want some indication the machine is installing, otherwise it'll get powered off by enterprising students.
Is there a trivial way to detect a laptop? The vbetool manpage is pretty clear about not running "post" laptops.
-Jon
