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Bug#1060220: rootskel: Can't stick to pure vga textmode any more

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Samuel Thibault, le dim. 07 janv. 2024 21:24:23 +0100, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault, le dim. 07 janv. 2024 21:14:53 +0100, a ecrit:
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s02.en.html#idm1171
> > 
> > documents a way to keep the pure vga text mode, but this doesn't seem to
> > be working any more: vga=normal fb=false doesn't seem to be effective
> > any more, vga=normal does indeed keep the textmode vga, but then even
> > with fb=false the fbcon still gets triggered. I tried to manually set
> > TERM_TYPE=dumb with the same result.
> > 
> > Any idea what nowadays could be triggering the fbcon?
> 
> Note: this is new in bookworm, bullseye doesn't pose the problem.
> 
> I assigned the bug to rootskel, but not much has changed for it between
> the two, so probably the bug isn't there, but I don't really know where
> to look at otherwise.

Could it be udev?  Would there be a way to disable that?

Samuel

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Bug#1060220: rootskel: Can't stick to pure vga textmode any more Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2024-01-07 21:20 +0100
  Bug#1060220: rootskel: Can't stick to pure vga textmode any more Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2024-01-07 21:30 +0100
    Bug#1060220: rootskel: Can't stick to pure vga textmode any more Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2024-01-07 21:40 +0100

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