Re: vesa_drv compatibility question
On 23/07/12 15:49, Adam Jackson wrote: In about a year or two, for new hardware, those odds are going to be much closer to one. The UEFI transition is going to mean that the vesa driver will no longer work. So now I'm curious -- what will be the fallback, if there's any? ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: vesa_drv compatibility question
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Henrik Pauli henrik.pa...@uhusystems.com wrote: On 23/07/12 15:49, Adam Jackson wrote: In about a year or two, for new hardware, those odds are going to be much closer to one. The UEFI transition is going to mean that the vesa driver will no longer work. So now I'm curious -- what will be the fallback, if there's any? fbdev on top of efifb or something similar or a native driver. Alex ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: vesa_drv compatibility question
On 7/22/12 5:38 AM, soul wrote: SUPPORTED HARDWARE The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible video cards. There are some known exceptions, and those should be listed here. Is there a list of such known exceptions? That is, VESA-compatible cards which are known NOT to work at all or well enough with this driver? I don't know of such a list. Possibly one existed when that man page was written. Secondly, in more general terms, how likely is it to find Laptops (especially), or PC/monitor combinations which are NOT VESA-compatible? Right now, the odds of that are close to zero. In about a year or two, for new hardware, those odds are going to be much closer to one. The UEFI transition is going to mean that the vesa driver will no longer work. Why do you ask? - ajax ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: vesa_drv compatibility question
Hello Adam, On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: On 7/22/12 5:38 AM, soul wrote: SUPPORTED HARDWARE The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible video cards. There are some known exceptions, and those should be listed here. Is there a list of such known exceptions? That is, VESA-compatible cards which are known NOT to work at all or well enough with this driver? I don't know of such a list. Possibly one existed when that man page was written. Secondly, in more general terms, how likely is it to find Laptops (especially), or PC/monitor combinations which are NOT VESA-compatible? Right now, the odds of that are close to zero. In about a year or two, for new hardware, those odds are going to be much closer to one. The UEFI transition is going to mean that the vesa driver will no longer work. Why do you ask? Thank you for your answer: this is perfectly fine for me. I ask because I am doing a custom LiveCD with a software demo, which as part of the show, should also work on a machine I will not have access to until the actual event. By targeting VESA I am hoping to therefore reduce the risk of an unpleasant surprise at runtime. This UEFI transition seems bad news.. I guess it will be more difficult for these use cases in the future. Thanks, C. ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
vesa_drv compatibility question
Hello, I have a two part question about vesa and the xf86-video-vesa driver (vesa_drv). First, I found mentioned in the vesa (4) manpage: SUPPORTED HARDWARE The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible video cards. There are some known exceptions, and those should be listed here. Is there a list of such known exceptions? That is, VESA-compatible cards which are known NOT to work at all or well enough with this driver? Secondly, in more general terms, how likely is it to find Laptops (especially), or PC/monitor combinations which are NOT VESA-compatible? In other words, assuming a perfect VESA driver, how many x86 / AMD-64 laptop or PC users can be reached by targeting the VESA standard? Thank you, C. ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
