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Subject: Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon
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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:19:01 +0200
> Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Florian,
>>=20
>> > Not using KMScon would prevent support for the Chinese and Japanese
>> > language during install, would it not?=20=20
>>=20
>> Yes and for other languages too.
>
> Yeah, but doesn't kmscon support vesa?  I mean I know the name kinda impl=
ies
> kernel modesetting, but doesn't it have a framebuffer fallback?
>
> I do mean we keep graphics terminal, but just use vesa instead of kms in =
order
> to set the graphics mode up.  (If that works)

I agree that this would be the best option, if it=E2=80=99s possible.  (I=
=E2=80=99m
surprised kmscon doesn=E2=80=99t automatically fall back to the framebuffer=
 on
these AMD things.)

Ludo=E2=80=99.