Bug#784579: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Boot process / DRM initialization causes blank console
If I disable the "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" parameter then GRUB does not
tell Linux anything. I assume that GRUB (or is it the Linux kernel?)
switches back to 80x25 text mode and the whole boot process completes
without problems. No black screen.
Markus Hamilton.
On 5/6/2015 17:46, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.
>
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