Bug#684574: still unfixed

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Mon Jan 21 09:53:43 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 05:16:09PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 02:36:40PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > This bug is still unfixed. The efi_gop and efi_ufa have to be loaded
> > _always_ and unconditionally, not only if some graphics mode is
> > requested.
> Mm, sorry, I misunderstood the rationale for this slightly before, but I
> understand better now.  This is really the fault of the Debian-specific
> gfxpayload_keep_default patch; I'm going to revert a small part of that
> which was responsible for disabling video module loading and hence
> prevented the screen_info structure from being set up properly on entry
> to Linux.
> I'd appreciate confirmation that 1.99-27 fixes this for real.

Nope. It adds a load_video to the menuentry for Linux, but it is not
loaded otherwise.

Bastian

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