From: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 36069@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:34:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <73149751-082E-4EB6-89CB-7E242830BDBF@vllmrt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190626202351.s2km4b4zt7uwdob7@pelzflorian.localdomain>
> On 26. Jun 2019, at 22:23, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:51:41PM +0200, Björn Höfling wrote:
>> What's the conclusion? Maybe that Guix is fine and the VNC-clients are
>> also fine. It might just be a matter of configuration or using an older
>> version with bugs?
>>
>
> Passing “-vga cirrus” reduces the display size.
>
> The command “man qemu” says:
>
> -vga type
> Select type of VGA card to emulate. Valid values for type
> are
>
> cirrus
> Cirrus Logic GD5446 Video card. All Windows versions
> starting from Windows 95 should recognize and use
> this graphic card. For optimal performances, use 16
> bit color depth in the guest and the host OS. (This
> card was the default before QEMU 2.2)
>
> So presumably the VPS is using an old QEMU or passes -vga cirrus.
Great find! Indeed, lspci lists
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446
Is this something that could be fixed by including a driver for that
card in the kernel?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-27 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-03 9:35 bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC Robert Vollmert
2019-06-05 10:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-05 11:25 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-06-05 21:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-11 7:13 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-06-11 8:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-24 22:24 ` Björn Höfling
2019-06-25 13:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-25 14:09 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-06-25 15:06 ` Björn Höfling
2019-06-25 15:54 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-25 17:51 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-06-26 16:51 ` Björn Höfling
2019-06-26 19:16 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-06-26 20:23 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-06-27 6:34 ` Robert Vollmert [this message]
2019-06-27 8:27 ` Björn Höfling
2019-07-19 11:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-19 16:37 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-07-20 13:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-20 15:17 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-07-22 9:25 ` Björn Höfling
2019-07-22 10:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-02 13:10 ` Björn Höfling
2019-09-16 8:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-06-26 8:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-02-05 12:15 ` bug#36069: (No Subject) Attila Lendvai
2023-11-03 20:22 ` bug#36069: "cirrus" added to VM initrd modules Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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