Control: retitle -1 [REGRESSION] vmwgfx black screen until X started On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 16:43 -0400, Markus Hamilton wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1 > Severity: important > > The installation has been a Debian 7 system in a VMware Workstation 11 > environment which runs under Windows 7x64 on a HP G61 laptop. There is no > display manager installed. Linux just boots to a console login prompt. X11 is > started manually after login using "startx". The vesa mode for Linux is set in > /etc/default/grub using "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1366x768x8". The kernel package > used in Debian 7 was linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64. [...] Does this also happen if you don't tell GRUB to set the screen mode for Linux? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
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