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From: Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#381641: Video mode change during init
script disrupts fixed freq monitor
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:30:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Aug 2006, Jack Carroll wrote:
> > In general, it's _most_ unwise for any program to touch video modes,
> > until the user has logged in and taken control. Otherwise, there is too
> > much risk of making the console screen unreadable and making it
> > impossible to boot into a rescue mode...
>
> Agreed. But AFAIK the initscript package does not have any code that change
> video modes, or program console fonts, or do anything else of the sort...
Then maybe it's some program that initscripts calls.
console-screen.sh looks like a possibility. I'll disable it and reboot, and
let you
know what happens.
Aha! Removing the symlink in /etc/rcS.d to
/etc/init.d/console-screen does indeed make the bug go away. If that caused
any side effects, I didn't detect them.
That file belongs to the console-tools package. I'm copying this
message to that package's maintainer. Mr. McKinstry, the original report is
in the bugs data base; you might want to change the package line and take
over the report; I don't think I have access to do that.
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