Enable fbdev for vmwgfx kernel driver [Testing: issue1280]

This is supposed to fix the display issue on
VMware ESXi 5.5, vSphere 5.0 and 5.5 etc where
boot hangs after "Waiting for /dev/" but it's
actually just the display that's hanging.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714929
for further information.

Thanks: Andreas Gredler <jimmy@grml.org>

diff --git a/etc/grml/fai/config/files/etc/modprobe.d/vmwgfx.conf/GRMLBASE b/etc/grml/fai/config/files/etc/modprobe.d/vmwgfx.conf/GRMLBASE
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..3b4a8e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/grml/fai/config/files/etc/modprobe.d/vmwgfx.conf/GRMLBASE
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# This file was deployed via grml-live's
+# ${GRML_FAI_CONFIG}/config/scripts/GRMLBASE/39-modprobe script, using
+# ${GRML_FAI_CONFIG}/config/files/etc/modprobe.d/vmwgfx.conf/GRMLBASE
+#
+# Filename:      /etc/modprobe.d/vmwgfx.conf
+# Purpose:       Enable vmwgfx fbdev for the drm driver for the VMware SVGA device
+# Authors:       grml-team (grml.org),
+# Bug-Reports:   see http://grml.org/bugs/
+# License:       This file is licensed under the GPL v2 or any later version.
+################################################################################
+
+options vmwgfx enable_fbdev=1

diff --git a/etc/grml/fai/config/scripts/GRMLBASE/39-modprobe b/etc/grml/fai/config/scripts/GRMLBASE/39-modprobe
index 22f1a25..fae8d06 100755 (executable)
--- a/etc/grml/fai/config/scripts/GRMLBASE/39-modprobe
+++ b/etc/grml/fai/config/scripts/GRMLBASE/39-modprobe
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ set -e
 # and http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_236
 find $target/etc/modprobe.d -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name \*\.conf -exec mv {} {}.conf \;
 
-# Copy the loop options
-fcopy -v /etc/modprobe.d/loop-part.conf
+# Install all present modprobe.d configuration files
+fcopy -v -r /etc/modprobe.d
 
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