[Bug 297704] Re: Slow framebuffer on HP Compaq CQ50-110EM laptop

[Kyle]

I had the same issue, in fact even the Ubuntu startup sound was playing
slowly.  To review the symptoms, disabling the startup splash shows that
startup messages fly by and the screen scrolls very, very fast until
this happens during startup:

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30

And then it gets painfully slow.  GDM login is fine, gnome-terminal is
fine, but Ctrl-Alt-F1 through Ctrl-Alt-F6 are just painfully slow to
use.  Fortunately I was able to find a solution (and I'm adding this
comment so anyone else who finds this bug like I did via googling can
have it too).

Just add this line to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-
framebuffer.conf:

blacklist vga16fb

(if the problem persists look for other possible fb devices to blacklist
with lsmod | grep fb)

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Slow framebuffer on HP Compaq CQ50-110EM laptop
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297704
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