From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 13:19:44 +0200 Message-ID: <20190403131944.2b4244c5@scratchpost.org> References: <871s3a4xd4.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgv89w3k.fsf@gnu.org> <20190328000935.qnhrbamajj47vibu@pelzflorian.localdomain> <87h8bl8xrb.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <875zs1k5ac.fsf@gmail.com> <20190329180022.pqzdrzcjrbm3z5ub@pelzflorian.localdomain> <871s2o6cyt.fsf@gmail.com> <87imw0u558.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <20190330152211.2ugzdbvp2hjy3lvl@pelzflorian.localdomain> <871s2lkesq.fsf@gmail.com> <87a7h9jxzd.fsf@gnu.org> <87y34sj122.fsf@gmail.com> <20190402183102.3d951dc2@scratchpost.org> <87tvffilot.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/rsvxHqwFOQsFi4sP6ZbNqWK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51015) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBdvu-0007AA-S0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 07:19:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hBdvu-0006Cz-3c for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 07:19:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tvffilot.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 --Sig_/rsvxHqwFOQsFi4sP6ZbNqWK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Mathieu, > I don't get very well the Linux graphics stack but my understanding is > that passing "nomodeset" to Linux will disable KMS and thus kmscon won't > work. Is that correct ? I don't know. It might be the case but I doubt it. Why would kmscon remove a perfectly fine fallback that's pretty similar to use anyway? There's an example in kmscon's README that has: $ ./configure --with-video=3Dfbdev,drm2d [...] Reading configure.ac, I get the impression that this means that there are t= wo backends then, fbdev and drm2d, and the user can select one. I suggest that we use fbdev (maybe at runtime, but maybe just disable every= thing else :P). I'm very much minimalist especially in system installers. So many things c= an go wrong and it's much better to have *some* system than to have no system installed :) --Sig_/rsvxHqwFOQsFi4sP6ZbNqWK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEds7GsXJ0tGXALbPZ5xo1VCwwuqUFAlykltAACgkQ5xo1VCww uqVDjQf5AbRmhBV0vGzUEBXsg9pWNzbLVpyOCQOz08YD101jP703UfkhC4lbuYx9 ZeYMr1+u8M7Ab1CkVBZ7FHCb3PDvZcA1LC2Ab8CY6ldemF9Kyq2k235ShxkY0py/ FVaYJgbsDheuDMM2/K5jvsoWsVLkNtvTDAsqDthOXzos/xXgBiEeNug2kCZLn68y A6mkzNObpm0omLPfLoiaiZPiVm8WiCUdtWBQUF3NHVrz29SUhPllgmbkrXJoXXAV js5f1hHQ7uSBuOv94+MqyaePkcM0JVgw5lbDTx80YMW/UscMy58azPPpcZ/qQ7Fv 40hEnCr7uSRzjSEadm66JsuxUhvYiA== =aJBY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/rsvxHqwFOQsFi4sP6ZbNqWK--