On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 08:37:02AM +0200, Bengt Richter wrote: > Did you mean s/ksmcon/kmscon/ ?
Yes. > If that is a descendant of David Herrmann's work, > I wonder if it wouldn't just look for /sys/class/drm/card0 and, if found, > ignore /dev/fb0 and the uvesafb (along with the latter's user stuff > requirements). > […] > I had thought that some version of Wayland/weston had a back end that > could run on plain /dev/fb0, and if so could provide Xwayland for X11 clients. > > Of course, if /sys/class/drm/card0 is available, Wayland will prefer that, > and you're home free for all kinds of GUIs. Well only with uvesafb I get a /dev/fb0 device and with /dev/fb0 I can use xf86-video-fbdev or kmscon. It seems kmscon has multiple backends, I do not know if it can work in other ways, but by default it does not work without uvesafb. Regards, Florian
