Comment 11 for bug 127008

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Albert Damen (albrt) wrote : Re: Alternate install of Tribe-4 corrupts video display when installing packages

In my system the TV output is already disabled (without the above lines in xorg.conf). Running xresprobe intel does not give the colored blocks.
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 1280
VGA disconnected (normal left inverted right)
LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 331mm x 207mm
   1280x800 59.9*+ 60.0
   1280x768 60.0
   1024x768 60.0
   800x600 60.3
   640x480 59.9
TV disconnected (normal left inverted right)

I did find something in the logfiles: the installation uses framebuffer and loads modules fbcon and vga16fb (+ some depending modules). My installed system does not use these modules.

When I do the installation without any additional boot option, I get the colored blocks
when I do the installation with boot option vga=771 or fb=false, I don't get the colored blocks.
Could this mean the problem is caused by using framebuffer with the intel driver?

I also found a way to reproduce the problem manually: I don't answer the question about language support in the installation but switch to tty2. When I just install xresprobe and xserver-xorg-video-intel manually, the colored blocks show (no boot-option).
Could I retrieve more information by doing this manual install with some special options?