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From: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
Subject: bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:34:21 +0200
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> On 26. Jun 2019, at 22:23, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) =
<pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> wrote:
>=20
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:51:41PM +0200, Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling =
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?
>>=20
>=20
> Passing =E2=80=9C-vga cirrus=E2=80=9D reduces the display size.
>=20
> The command =E2=80=9Cman qemu=E2=80=9D says:
>=20
> -vga type
>    Select type of VGA card to emulate. Valid values for type
>    are
>=20
>    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)
>=20
> 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?