Am 14.05.2015 um 16:07 schrieb Steven Chamberlain: > Hi, > > Was this an upgrade from wheezy or a new install? It is a new installation, about one month old. No update. > > I do actually prefer a text-mode console myself (it is much faster too), > but I fear it may cause problems for other users. Some things will need > to be tested: > > * if text-mode was default, what happens when a drm2 graphics driver > is loaded; does VT switching still work then? > * I recall the old VT would glitch sometimes on 'cursor left' (glyphs > would be blanked out though they are still there); would text-mode > reintroduce that bug? > * does the text-mode console break any glyphs that were supported in > vga mode? (I think I know an easy way to check this in d-i) > > We might consider setting text-mode or vga mode at install time > based on some detection, but I think we need to check the above first. > Furthermore, we should also set GRUB to text-mode in that case also. > Not having access to GRUB has made this problem so much worse in your > case, as you had no way to manually change to text-mode. > > But that would still not fix upgrades, where this problem is most > serious. If jessie-kfreebsd is released with vga console as default, > it should be carefully noted in release notes how to change back to > text mode before rebooting. > > Regards, What comes to my mind, is it possible to make the kernel package dpkg-reconfigure-able? Thus allowing the sysadmin to choose between the two modes. I think that would be the sanest solution, it would also allow switching between the two when needed. Best regards, Jan
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