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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Subject: bug#40599: 1.1.0rc2 i686 gui install unreadable
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 02:48:45 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 40599@debbugs.gnu.org, Niels Felsted <niels@pdlkrft.eu>

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:56:41PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> It’s a tough choice.  We know what we’d lose with option #1, but we
> don’t really know what we’d lose with option #2, right?

>From my limited experience with my old machines and a friend’s recent
machine, uvesafb was often helpful.  If nomodeset calms Niels’
Intel GMA, I would prefer keeping uvesafb.

Regards,
Florian