If I disable the "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" parameter then GRUB does not
tell Linux anything. I assume that GRUB (or is it the Linux kernel?)
switches back to 80x25 text mode and the whole boot process completes
without problems. No black screen.
Markus Hamilton.
On 5/6/2015 17:46, Ben Hutchings w
Control: retitle -1 [REGRESSION] vmwgfx black screen until X started
On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 16:43 -0400, Markus Hamilton wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1
> Severity: important
>
> The installation has been a Debian 7 system in a VMware Workstation 11
> environment which
Package: src:linux
Version: 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1
Severity: important
The installation has been a Debian 7 system in a VMware Workstation 11
environment which runs under Windows 7x64 on a HP G61 laptop. There is no
display manager installed. Linux just boots to a console login prompt. X11 is
starte
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