From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
Cc: 40538@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 10:56:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200412085621.5pzvrgs3rg3mvrsy@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200412063702.GA4097@LionPure>
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 08:37:02AM +0200, Bengt Richter wrote:
> Did you mean s/ksmcon/kmscon/ ?
Yes.
> If that is a descendant of David Herrmann's work,
> I wonder if it wouldn't just look for /sys/class/drm/card0 and, if found,
> ignore /dev/fb0 and the uvesafb (along with the latter's user stuff requirements).
> […]
> I had thought that some version of Wayland/weston had a back end that
> could run on plain /dev/fb0, and if so could provide Xwayland for X11 clients.
>
> Of course, if /sys/class/drm/card0 is available, Wayland will prefer that,
> and you're home free for all kinds of GUIs.
Well only with uvesafb I get a /dev/fb0 device and with /dev/fb0 I can
use xf86-video-fbdev or kmscon. It seems kmscon has multiple
backends, I do not know if it can work in other ways, but by default
it does not work without uvesafb.
Regards,
Florian
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-10 12:54 bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-10 14:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-10 14:58 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-12 6:37 ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-12 8:35 ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-12 8:56 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2020-04-11 18:43 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-11 19:03 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-11 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-11 21:11 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-04-12 9:23 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-12 14:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-12 18:33 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-12 9:02 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-12 11:24 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-12 12:33 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-12 14:48 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-12 15:30 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-12 17:48 ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-12 18:11 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-13 5:00 ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-13 5:37 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-14 8:57 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-14 7:24 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-14 8:16 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-14 8:34 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-14 10:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-14 10:28 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-14 13:14 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-14 14:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-14 17:09 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-14 21:31 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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