Ticket #1467 (new enhancement)

Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

Blacklist vgab16fb because VTs during the install are painfully slow

Reported by: jdreed Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: The Distant Future
Component: -- Keywords:
Cc: Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description

The solution to slow VTs seems to be adding "blacklist vga16fb" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf

It has been suggested that "nomodeset" is not sufficient, and in fact there are no kernel arguments to make the framebuffer less stupid. I'm not sure how we can do this in the initrd without building our own initrd (eww).

Change History

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by jdreed

achernya noted that Debian recommends appending "vga16fb.blacklist=yes" to the kernel command line. On Precise, that results in an unusable VT. On Trusty, it appears to have no effect (that is, the VTs are usable but scrolling is as slow as always.)

comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by geofft

Set TERM_TYPE=virtual on the Linux command line and make sure vga= is unset (or you'll hang the Precise installer).

See /lib/debian-installer/detect-console and /lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S40framebuffer-module-linux-x86. There might be a better way to do this, but this seems to work on both the Precise and Trusty mini.isos.

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