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

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Samuel Thibault, le dim. 07 janv. 2024 21:14:53 +0100, a ecrit:
> Source: rootskel
> Version: 1.136
> Severity: important
> Tags: a11y
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 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.

Samuel