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Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> I confirm that the RX580 does not have framebuffer/KMS support with the A=
TI
> driver.
> There is KMS support with the AMDGPU driver, sadly it requires some propr=
ietary
> blob :(

I=E2=80=99d expect the framebuffer to always work, at least through VESA, n=
o?

> During the Guix days you mentioned that you went for KMSCON because of en=
coding
> issues if I recall correctly.  So what about this: on startup, test if KM=
S is
> supported.  If not, fall back to the default TTY, and too bad for the lim=
ited
> encoding :p  Would that work?

That would be a reasonable workaround.

Ludo=E2=80=99.