X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Received: from sdaoden.eu (sdaoden.eu [217.144.132.164]) by lists.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F9D5C0611 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2018 22:14:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: by sdaoden.eu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 652BD16045; Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:14:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:14:00 +0100 From: Steffen Nurpmeso To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: [alpine-devel] 4.14.18-vanilla breaks framebuffer console on QEMU VMware Message-ID: <20180210221400.LquGt%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Mail-Followup-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.6-48-gd837577b OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc BlahBlahBlah: Any stupid boy can crush a beetle. But all the professors in the world can make no bugs. X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Hello! So i have switched the server to 4.14.18 which does not even require nopti there, but the console does not show up. It happens that this is a known issue [1,2,3]. The conclusion of [3] was I disabled CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE and CONFIG_X86_SYSFB for now on master and SLE12 branches. and [1] says If you read there was a patched proposed to change it to 'N' and/or to depend on FB_SIMPLE, but that patch never made it into linux. Nor did or . I tried to contact David Herrmann himself, but never got a reply. So I think Debian should disable X86_SYSFB for now, too. I try it now with the suggestion via grub2 configuration given by [2] This is when using gfxpayload=keep. If I manually switch to gfxpayload=text, I don't see this problem - there is no "EFI VGA" mentioned in dmesg. Maybe something to consider. Ciao! [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2016/11/msg00168.html [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1038055 [3] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855821 --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---