Comment # 2 on bug 1095700 from Per Jessen

(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.