Saturday, February 12, 2011

Slow console performance in Ubuntu

The console on Ubuntu 10.04 server is painfully slow under virtual machine. The solution is to disable the frame buffer. Just append "blacklist vga16fb" to the end of the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf, save and reboot. (To prevent gdm from loading replace "quiet splash" to "text" in the /etc/default/grub and run update-grub.)
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8 comments:

  1. adsFebruary 23, 2011 at 12:19 PM

    thx for the tip! this speeds my terminal up so much faster <3

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  2. d0tFebruary 23, 2011 at 1:54 PM

    sadly I've found that most simple operations on virtual machine slow down my entire system (virtual and real) to painful levels.

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  3. JorgeFebruary 23, 2011 at 3:13 PM

    Thanks for the small tip. It'll help me later on.

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  4. InnovationsFebruary 23, 2011 at 4:13 PM

    well thanks for lettin me know :p

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  5. jopjopjopFebruary 24, 2011 at 6:49 AM

    good info thanks for sharing

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  6. Aaron M. GipsonFebruary 24, 2011 at 7:42 AM

    Jumping on this fix, thanks man!

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  7. ebm93February 24, 2011 at 8:49 PM

    thanks for telling me this! keep up the good job.

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  8. KUSHtunesFebruary 25, 2011 at 1:30 PM

    I never switched so I'm all good.

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