Re: disable fbcon in Debian Wheezy (Live)?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:23:54 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

>>>>>> Camaleón  <noelamac@gmail.com> writes: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 06:28:49
>>>>>> +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> 
>  >> How do I disable fbcon in Debian Wheezy?  I'm using a custom Debian
>  >> Live image, and it switches to fbcon as soon as it can get to the
>  >> modules!
> 
>  > (...)
> 
>  > What VGA chipset?
> 
>  > I would wonder why the right driver cannot be loaded instead.
> 
> 	It's not the implementation that bothers me at the moment, but rather
> 	the approach.  VGA console works for me, and I see no compelling reason
> 	to switch.  Especially given the necessity to configure at least the
> 	resolution (BTW, I've tried fbset(8), but it apparently refuses to set
> 	either 640x512 or 1280x1024) and the font (though setfont(8) works
> 	correctly.)

Console fonts (face and size) can be tweaked from "/etc/default/console-setup".

> 	Also, I guess that fbcon (in certain configurations) may be
> 	incompatible with KVM over IP solutions (see, e. g., [1]), and while
> 	I'm not using one at the time, I'd be hesitant to using fbcon on the
> 	servers under my control.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.metawerx.net/wiki/News
> 
> 	Moreover, I see that the reboot(8) operation was changed from going
> 	through the BIOS to re-initialization of just the kernel. There, the
> 	shutting down kernel instance doesn't switch off to a VGA text mode,
> 	which is contrary to the assumptions of the starting instance, thus
> 	resulting in a screwed display for the initial stages of the boot
> 	process.
> 
> 	Otherwise, fbcon works pretty much correctly for the case in question. 
> 	As per lsmod, the driver is i915.

Intel KMS requires fbcon, unless this has changed recently... and for Intel 
cards KMS is also mandatory, so I dunno what to suggest :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón