Bug#784579: [REGRESSION] vmwgfx black screen until X started

[Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de>]

Package: src:linux
Followup-For: Bug #784579

Hi,

> 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.

Can you test the fix in Bug#714929 (vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1 on the kernel
command line)?

Bernhard