Bug#534944: grub-pc: text mode virtual terminals blank

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 04:33:37PM +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Robert Millan<rmh at aybabtu.com> wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I'm uploading 1.96+20090629-1, which includes some cleanup in the Linux
> > loader.  It's possible your problem might disappear with this version,
> > please report.
> 
> No joy.

Hi,

Then your bug is #535026.  #534944 was confirmed to be fixed by Arthur.  I'm
changing CC to 535026 at bugs.debian.org.

> I see the message that "vga" parameter is deprecated. The mode I'm
> using is 773 (1024x768x256).

Ok.  That's 0x305 aka 1024x768x8, which is supposed to be detected & handled
already.

> This is the output of a patched kernel, loaded with linux16:
> 
> orig_x = 0x0, orig_y =  0x0
> ext_mem_k = 0xffff
> orig_video_page = 0x0
> orig_video_mode = 0x3
> orig_video_cols = 0x50
> orig_video_ega_bx = 0x3
> orig_video_lines = 0x19
> orig_video_isVGA = 0x1
> orig_video_points = 0x10
> lfb_width / lfb_height / lfb_depth = 0x0x0
> lfb_base = 0x0, lfb_size = 0x0
> cl_magic = 0x0, cl_offset = 0x0
> lfb_linelength = 0x0\n
> red_size = 0x0, red_pos = 0x0
> green_size = 0x0, green_pos = 0x0
> blue_size = 0x0, blue_pos = 0x0
> rsvd_size = 0x0, rsvd_pos = 0x0
> vesapm = 0x0:0x0
> pages = 0x0
> vesa_attributes = 0x0
> capabilities = 0x0

This looks like text mode.  I assume you didn't pass "vga=773" to linux16?
I need you to include that parameter in your test.

Thanks!

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