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[Arjan Bouter <a_bouter AT ezrs.com>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:37:21 +0100
Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org> wrote:

> Arjan Bouter a écrit :
> > want me to post a bug? 
> 
> Yes

will do

> 
> > that's 1024x768 in 16bit color
> > My guess is that newer cards have some trouble with lower 
> > resolutions/color
> > depth.
> 
> So, what happens is that the colors used by the installer (which are the 
> colors used by sorcery I think) might be displayed on the screen with 
> the same colors? If so, we should find colors that are not displayed the 
> same.
> 
> But i still don't understand, I though the linux console was supposed to 
> have the same width x height x color depth everywhere. Am I wrong?

i guess it boils down to a "undocumented feature" of some cards. It looks like
those cards use a different color scheme for 8bit colors (the default).

> 
> Doest the initrd menu works? If so, why the initrd menu works and not 
> the installer menu? Is there some init.d scripts that corrupt the linux 
> console?

The menu labeled initrd menu works, as do all the others, it's just the colors
mixed up (foreground and background the same)

> 
> Anyway, I really want to correct this bug since it's useless to make an 
> ISO if some people see nothings on their screen. However, right now, it 
> will be marked as "unreproducible" :-(

it can be reproduced, with specific hardware. what i don't know if some people
run smgl on a box which cannot display 1024x768 in 16 bit color depth. it 
might
be a nice solution to display the option in the 1st screen you get when 
booting
the iso.

Arjan

> 
> Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO team
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