From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Subject: Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 18:07:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20190404160748.3jr76nocxxith3jz@pelzflorian.localdomain> References: <87y34sj122.fsf@gmail.com> <20190402183102.3d951dc2@scratchpost.org> <87tvffilot.fsf@gmail.com> <20190403131944.2b4244c5@scratchpost.org> <20190403205630.30b80f49@scratchpost.org> <87wokaq0gd.fsf@gnu.org> <20190403230244.663ee305@scratchpost.org> <20190404050217.6wsqln62utbl4ock@pelzflorian.localdomain> <87o95mfcer.fsf@gmail.com> <87h8bdkhhs.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39612) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hC4u8-0006B9-DS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:07:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hC4u7-0004KZ-D1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:07:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87h8bdkhhs.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mathieu Othacehe Cc: Guix-devel , Pierre Neidhardt On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 03:49:35PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: >=20 > I did test the patch on my hardware (kmscon with forced fbdev backend): >=20 > * By default, kmscon is loaded, everything seems ok. > * Passing nomodeset to the kernel, kmscon hangs with a black screen, bu= t > I'm able to switch to other mingetty terminals. >=20 > Not sure what is going wrong, but I fear it won't be much better on you= r > AMD GPUs :( >=20 > Mathieu >=20 I got exactly the same result on my grandma=E2=80=99s 10-years-old laptop= . I just found out it is using an old AMD GPU too (AMD RS780M).