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From: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without
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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:24:52 +0200
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To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
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Hello Florian,

> Please try adding nomodeset to the kernel parameters.  I hope this
> makes the Intel machine work fine.

Yes it works fine with nomodeset! Do you think we can do something about
it, besides adding a few lines in the documentation to warn that old
hardware may require this option?

Thanks,

Mathieu