Recent distributions come with shitloads of graphic crapware. These features are buggy and repeatedly lead to frozen 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