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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Subject: bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without
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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 23:31:37 +0200
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To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:09:23PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> 
> Hey Florian,
> 
> > They do show that the uvesafb shepherd service was started, even when
> > it did not load uvesafb.  Maybe the shepherd service should be
> > renamed.
> 
> I did check on my recent hardware, the module is not loaded anymore and
> everything works fine. On my old Intel machine, I guess uvesafb was
> messing with i915, and as you pointed out, "nomodeset" was required.
> 
> With your recent patch, uvesafb is not loaded and it works fine out of
> the box.
> 
> Thanks a lot for all the effort your are investing into this :)
> 
> Mathieu

I’m glad.  Thank you for testing.  Closing. :)

Regards,
Florian