On Monday 17 May 2010 20:56:00 Paul Nuffer wrote:
> On 05/12/2010 09:49 AM, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> > Unfortunately "nomodeset" doesn't change anything it seems. I added
> > it to the GRUB defaults, updated GRUB and rebooted. The flag
> > "nomodeset" shows up in /proc/cmdline but everything goes exactly
> > as illustrated in the screencast, i.e. horribly slow :(
> >
> > Is there anything else I can try?
>
> Blacklisting the vga16fb module fixed the slowness for my 10.04 LTS
> VMs in VirtualBox:
>
> #/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
>
> blacklist vga16fb
>
> # end of that mess

Thank you, that's wonderful! Finally a way to get that console back to a 
usable state! Works well!

> I found this as a quick fix on a blog a while back, but if there are
> better ideas I'd be willing to try them!

Should we file a bug report about this on launchpad?

Thanks again!

Andreas
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