Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 03:54:30PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: [...] > fb: switching to mgag200drmfb from simple > > on amd64 at boot time. No further console output, esp. no > login prompt. This is a regression of Debian's version 4.4.x; > older kernels or a kernel built from upstream's sources > doesn't show this problem. (I tried upstream's 4.4.8 and > 4.5.2 on unstable.) [...] > Please note the "Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25". > I am using GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024.
And have you tried removing that?
[...]
> I got quiet a number of these intel boards, i.e. its a pretty
> painful problem. I wouldn't like to run all these hosts with
> 80x25.
That might be an effect of the driver being confused by GRUB's
modesetting. I don't know.
Ben.
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