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Re: Merging ‘wip-newt-installer’ in master?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Merging ‘wip-newt-installer’ in master? |
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Fri, 08 Feb 2019 23:00:00 +0100 |
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Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:
> I confirm that the RX580 does not have framebuffer/KMS support with the ATI
> driver.
> There is KMS support with the AMDGPU driver, sadly it requires some
> proprietary
> blob :(
I’d expect the framebuffer to always work, at least through VESA, no?
> During the Guix days you mentioned that you went for KMSCON because of
> encoding
> issues if I recall correctly. So what about this: on startup, test if KMS is
> supported. If not, fall back to the default TTY, and too bad for the limited
> encoding :p Would that work?
That would be a reasonable workaround.
Ludo’.