Comment 3 for bug 9487

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Dimos Dimoulis (dimosd) wrote :

Selecting greek locale in the installer had the following results:
- The system booted in text mode, the correct font was loaded, termwrap started
vga16fb (which wasn't needed anyway) but didn't (re)load the correct font. I
tried "consolechars -f iso07.f16 --tty=/dev/tty1" in another vc and the text
appeared correctly from then on in base-config.
- X failed to start, because: Option UseFBDev "true" was added in Section
"Device" (Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440SE AGP 8x]") and
it couldn't find /dev/fb1 .. 9

I added "vga=0x303" in kernel parameters, to start VESA fb before termwrap,
prevent it from starting vga16fb and have the font loaded by init scripts
-after- starting the fb. This solved the above problems.

In summary: VESA fb at boot time worked, termwrap starting vga16fb by itself didn't.