bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

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