Hi Kevin,
> Thank you for the words of encouragement.
Thank you for your prompt response.
> I am also using HP 2133 for active development and primary testing
> purposes. I use it with a 120 GB SSD I purchased before the Flash
> memory prices went up late last year due to a shortage (capacity
> shortage due to planar NAND to 3D NAND Flash fab conversion).
Cool, just put a $100 240Gb SSD in mine for this :-)
> About a year ago, I filed a bug report with Linux kernel develops
> about vesafb snatching frame buffer before X Server starts. It
> affected Linux kernel 4.5. I got no response. Blacklisting vesafb was
> the workaround, so you will like to try it.
This appears to have nailed it, thanks ! Had to try a few things as
vesafb is compiled in to the SuSE kernels, not a module, but eventually
all of:
video=vesafb:off vga=normal nomodeset
as kernel parameters in grub.cfg did the job of disabling vesafb and
letting X start up.
> The newer DRM supporting DRI2 and KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) has been
> in development since 2011, but it is still nowhere near completion.
Well, there goes my holiday weekend, but meantime I'm pleased to report
I also got a working X using your DRM code. I cloned the drm-openchrome
tree from github, and just (slowly !) built a 3.19 kernel which pulls in
that code to fill in the missing via.ko module. It appears to work so
far, though I have not exercised it hard. Going to stick with the stock
SUSE kernel for stability and see how it goes..
> Dual head works right now since I test it all the time.
Awesome - I have indeed now got it driving an 1920x1080 VGA external
monitor.
Keith
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