====== GFX and KMS plague ======


Recent distributions come with shitloads of graphic crapware. These features are buggy [[https://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/DutaVrba/2014/7/centos-7-a-sifrovani-disku-pri-instalaci-naprava|and]] [[https://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/DutaVrba/2014/7/centos-7-a-sifrovani-disku-pri-instalaci-naprava#1|repeatedly]] [[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689266|lead]] [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/669481|to]] [[https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736853|frozen]] [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cryptsetup/+bug/595648|systems]]. It becomes increasingly difficult to turn them all off, so that's why this page.

  * Kernel parameters: nomodeset nosplash
    * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120551
  * Optionally: i915.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=0 gfxpayload=vga=text nofb
  * RedHell: delete rhgb
  * GRUB_TERMINAL=console
  * GRUB_GFXMODE=text
  * qemu:

    blacklist cirrus 
    blacklist ttm 
    blacklist drm_kms_helper 
    blacklist drm 
  * blacklist gma500_gfx for Intel GMA500