Comment # 3 on bug 1095700 from Per Jessen

(In reply to Per Jessen from comment #2)
> (In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #1)
> > Possibly a race condition, you're trying to issue an ioctl while switching
> > the fbcon from VESA to the KMS one?
> 
> Uh, I don't know - I'm just amending the tty service with those setterms. 
> 
> > Does it happen if you boot with nomodeset to prevent the native graphics
> > switching?
> 
> I'll try that.

using nomodeset does not seem to have any impact. Same error message from
setterm.