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From: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, jbranso@dismail.de
Subject: Re: kmscon not working on MacBook
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 03:26:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200326022605.GA21552@LionPure> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200325230018.h4f4k5cgmkivyo3h@pelzflorian.localdomain>

Hi,

On +2020-03-26 00:00:18 +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 09:48:50AM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> > I would
> > like something similar to be included in the next release.  Maybe
> > kmscon works everywhere then.
> 
> Of course the machines that need uvesafb to show the installer also
> later have problems showing Xorg.  Maybe until Xorg on installed
> systems without Kernel Mode Setting works fine without manually
> fiddling with uvesafb or nonfree drivers, there is no use making the
> installer work.
> 
> Perhaps uvesafb could somehow be made to work automatically, however
> on one of my computers uvesafb can only be used after „chmmod o+rw
> /dev/fb0“ which is a security issue, I suppose.
>

Are you a member of the video group?
What do you see typing
    stat /dev/fb0
? Maybe something to try?
Or not relevant to your context?

> 
> > ('nomodeset' is not needed; I leave it
> > in only for testing on computers where the graphical installer works
> > anyway when not passing 'nomodeset'.)
> 
> In fact nomodeset was needed on a friend’s AMD GPU system.  Probably
> one could blacklist yet another AMD graphics module instead of passing
> nomodeset.  But then the installer on AMD systems where the module is
> working fine would be limited to uvesafb.
> 
> Regards,
> Florian
> 

-- 
Regards,
Bengt Richter

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-26  2:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-24 21:38 Plan for a release! Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-24 22:55 ` Vincent Legoll
2020-02-25 14:00   ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-02-25 15:15     ` Vincent Legoll
2020-02-24 23:35 ` zimoun
2020-02-25 15:47 ` Joshua Branson
2020-03-05  4:54 ` jbranso
2020-03-08 12:04   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-08 21:03     ` kmscon not working on MacBook Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-09  7:43       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-09  9:48         ` Vincent Legoll
2020-03-09 16:45         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-11  7:14           ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-11  7:25             ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-20  8:48             ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-20  8:51               ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-25 23:00               ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-26  2:26                 ` Bengt Richter [this message]
2020-03-26 16:53                   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-29 10:26                     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-08 12:35   ` Gnome takes more than 5 minutes to start Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-08 21:04   ` Btrfs/udev issue Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-05 13:42 ` Plan for a release! jbranso
2020-03-05 16:45   ` sirgazil
2020-03-06 16:32     ` Joshua Branson
2020-03-05 21:09   ` Jan
2020-03-06 16:33     ` Joshua Branson
2020-03-06 16:51     ` Thunar cannot launch gio-launch-desktop Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-06 17:57       ` Jan
2020-03-06 21:51         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-06 23:59           ` Jan
2020-03-07 23:41           ` Jan
2020-03-08  9:08             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-08 22:05               ` Jan
2020-03-08 23:41               ` Jan
2020-03-09 22:41               ` Jan
2020-03-06  6:44   ` Plan for a release! pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-06  9:58     ` John Soo
2020-03-08 12:33   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-08 21:10   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-12 13:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-18 16:53   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-18 17:31     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-18 17:49     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-20 10:52       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-20 13:13         ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-03-20 13:58           ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-21 15:46         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-23 14:05           ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-26 11:55             ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-26 12:37               ` Vincent Legoll
2020-03-26 14:24                 ` Ludovic Courtès

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