On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 22:28 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > On one of my server, I had the issue as well. I'm not sure if it's the > exact same one, but at least I fixed it. > > What happened for me was that my KVM over IP was printing "No signal" > just right after the login prompt (eg: the rest of the boot process > seemed to not be bothered). > > Then I did: > > dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc > > and added: > > radeon.modeset=0 > > to the linux command line. After doing that, then I was able to see my > text mode login prompt (which is the only thing I care for a server, I > will never care about X support...). > > Though, I am wondering if the issue isn't simply that the kernel is > trying to set a mode which is higher than what my KVM over IP can > support.
Maybe. KVMs may not provide reliable EDID information.
> How can I choose such mode (which would be a better fix)? Do
> you know Ben, maybe?
>
> Hoping that this will help anyone searching for a quick and easy fix,
I don't know how to override the initial display mode.
Ben.
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