On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 4:43 PM, R P Herrold <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
>> >> On the case of Server and Minimal if you never want to use a graphical
>> >> interface and are happy with just the text console you can add a
>> >> blacklist so the GPU driver isn't loaded on boot. This
>> >> can be done by ...
>
>> > Adding module_blacklist=vc4 instead of blacklist=vc4 to the kernel command
>> > line allowed me to get to the login prompt.
>
> Would a more general solution be to add:
>         video=640x480
>
> to the kernel command line, to try to wrestle the video
> choices down into something low-res enough that a GUI install
> is prevented from being offered?

I don't see how that helps those people, which these days appear to be
the majority, who's monitors don't have any issues what so ever with
the display output.
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