consoles are blank with framebuffers
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Problem: by default, consoles use 80x25 characters. This is uncomfortable for those using consoles. The usual cure is to add a vga=791 (for 17"< / or vga=0x0344 (mode for 15"SXGA Laptop)) to the kernel command line (in /boot/grub/
Workaround, using framebuffers:
1. sudo vi /etc/initramfs-
so my /etc/initramfs-
fbcon
vesafb
2. sudo update-initramfs -u
3. sudo vi /etc/modprobe.
change the line "blacklist vesafb" to "# blacklist vesafb" # perhaps switch other free like nvidiafb...
4. reboot
thats a very bad Bug in Gutsy... if Xservers do not start beginners run away...
cause nobody of them is abler to locate the problem.
DO NEVER HIDE CONSOLES!!
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in usplash: | |
assignee: | saivann → nobody |
status: | Incomplete → New |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Thanks for the non-obvious fix. I commented all blacklist- framebuffer because I start with sisfb.
This is a really serious problem. I realised it when I encountered a bug in qemu that does not release the mouse and the keyboard, and the only way out would have been to kill qemu from the console, but I found that my consoles were all blank!