VT and kms is broken on a Lenovo Thinkpad E530

[Ed Maste]

On 18 July 2014 10:32, Daniel Peyrolon <tuchalia at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problems arise when I try to use the console, the screen just shows a
> static image of the last xorg frame, with some weird colors.

I presume you mean you try to access the console by pressing
Ctrl-Alt-F1 (for example), and then see the static odd-coloured image.
This behaviour is consistent with syscons(4), which cannot properly
switch back to a vty.

Can you describe how you tried to enable a vt(4) kernel?