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Subject: Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0
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> Are you serious?  It really is true that vga= isn't supposed to work in
> 2.6.0, but there is something to do with RedHat 7.3 which caused vga= to
> continue to work in 2.6.0 with that distro only?  Then why hasn't the vga=
> parameter been removed entirely?

vga= still works with the vesa framebuffer. There is a small bug that is 
causing all the problems.