Bug#784579: [REGRESSION] vmwgfx black screen until X started

2015-08-31 Thread Hamilton Engineering
Hi Bernhard, I'm so sorry for the long delay in getting back to you. Somehow I was not notified that there was a new (your) message waiting to be read. The good news is that adding "vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1" to the kernel command line definitely solves the problem! The system works as expected now.

Bug#784579: [REGRESSION] vmwgfx black screen until X started

2015-05-20 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Package: src:linux Followup-For: Bug #784579 Hi, 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.