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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #129910
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 129910

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Bruno (bruno666-666) wrote : Re: tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy

According Ben collins comment in bug #120747 vesafb is now built into the kernel. But in the shell script /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/kernelextras, there is :

for x in ${MODULESDIR}/initrd/*; do
 x=${x##*/}
 x=${x%.*}
 case ${x} in
 '*')
  break
  ;;
 *fb)
  fbcon=y
  ;;
 esac

 force_load ${x}
done

# And add vga16fb for usplash to use as well
manual_add_modules vga16fb

if [ ${fbcon} = "y" ]; then
 force_load fbcon
fi

Since there is no more *fb module in the ${MODULESDIR}/initrd/ directory, fbcon and its dependencies are not loaded.