Disabling plymouth framebuffer on servers (virtual and physical)?

[Paul Nuffer]

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On 05/12/2010 09:49 AM, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> Unfortunately "nomodeset" doesn't change anything it seems. I added it 
> to the GRUB defaults, updated GRUB and rebooted. The flag "nomodeset" 
> shows up in /proc/cmdline but everything goes exactly as illustrated in 
> the screencast, i.e. horribly slow :(
> 
> Is there anything else I can try?
> 

Blacklisting the vga16fb module fixed the slowness for my 10.04 LTS VMs
in VirtualBox:

#/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

blacklist vga16fb

# end of that mess

I found this as a quick fix on a blog a while back, but if there are
better ideas I'd be willing to try them!

Thanks,

Paul

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