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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:58:55 +0200
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To: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
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Hello,

Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> skribis:

>> On 26. Jun 2019, at 22:23, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzf=
lorian.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?

I suppose so.

Mark, WDYT about adding support for Cirrus VGA cards to the kernel?
What would it take to do so?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.