On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 4:43 PM, R P Herrold <herrold(a)owlriver.com> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >> On the case of Server and Minimal if you never want to use a graphical
> >> interface and are happy with just the text console you can add a
> >> blacklist so the GPU driver isn't loaded on boot. This
> >> can be done by ...
> > Adding module_blacklist=vc4 instead of blacklist=vc4 to the kernel command
> > line allowed me to get to the login prompt.
Would a more general solution be to add:
video=640x480
to the kernel command line, to try to wrestle the video
choices down into something low-res enough that a GUI install
is prevented from being offered?
I don't see how that helps those people, which these days appear to be
the majority, who's monitors don't have any issues what so ever with
the display output.