Jack Carroll wrote:
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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.
This is confusing; console-tools has not changed in many weeks.
While console-screen can change the video mode, it does not by default,
for the
reasons described: no safe defaults on all the old hardware out there.
Can you please send a copy of:
/etc/console-tools/*
dpkg -l | grep splash
dpkg -l | grep console
kernel version?
regards
Alastair
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