Ah, one more thing to notice, if starting in recovery mode from grub, and then resuming the run, it was always working (with std vga too).
Thus this looks like a race in initializing the things that xorg needs to initialize vbe driver ** Changed in: gdm3 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1794280 Title: gdm doesn't start on a fresh installation of Cosmic Desktop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1794280/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs