Increase the connector message size to avoid message to long errors from uvesafb as per the below dmesg fragment: uvesafb: Bochs/Plex86 Developers, Bochs/Plex86 VBE Adapter, $Id$, OEM: Bochs/Plex86 VBE(C) 2003 http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/vgabios/, VBE v2.0 uvesafb: no monitor limits have been set, default refresh rate will be used uvesafb: scrolling: redraw uvesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xffffc90000080000, using 8192k, total 8192k fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device uvesafb: message too long (57808), can't execute task uvesafb: VBE get state call failed (eax=0x4f04, err=-7) udev: starting version 158 EXT3-fs (hda): using internal journal uvesafb: message too long (57808), can't execute task uvesafb: VBE get state call failed (eax=0x4f04, err=-7) uvesafb: message too long (57808), can't execute task uvesafb: VBE get state call failed (eax=0x4f04, err=-7) uvesafb: message too long (57808), can't execute task uvesafb: VBE get state call failed (eax=0x4f04, err=-7) JL 13/0/10 Index: linux/include/linux/connector.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/linux/connector.h 2010-08-13 13:16:28.000000000 +0100 +++ linux/include/linux/connector.h 2010-08-13 13:18:29.507791929 +0100 @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ /* * Maximum connector's message size. */ -#define CONNECTOR_MAX_MSG_SIZE 16384 +//#define CONNECTOR_MAX_MSG_SIZE 16384 +#define CONNECTOR_MAX_MSG_SIZE 65536 /* * idx and val are unique identifiers which