On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, David Brownlee wrote:
AFAIK X requires a wsdisplay to run on - which you don't seem to get
with a serial console. I wonder if it might be possible to run it on
genfb?
Yes. Mouse, can post the output of this:
$ ls -l $(which Xorg)
-RVP
hello. What video driver/kernel driver are you using to drive the
display? I had a
similar problem using the intelfb(4) driver. I had to revert to the genfb(4)
driver to get the
VGA port to work properly. The Displayport /HDMI ports worked fine under the
intelfb(4)
driver, but the
>> Is there any way I can test for it?
> Connect something to the HDMI outputs?
I got out my HDMI-to-VGA converter, the same one I've used for HDMI
stuff on this before.
It doesn't work to just switch to HDMI. xrandr does recognize when
HDMI is connected (and which HDMI connector is connected),
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 17:59, Mouse wrote:
>
> I don't know whether this is kernel or X11. There are things pointing
> each way.
>
> At work, I've got 9.1 on an amd64 machine. When I boot it normally -
> console on screen/keyboard - X works fine.
>
> But I'm having an issue. The machine is
>> Is there any way I can test for it?
> Connect something to the HDMI outputs?
Worth trying. I should have thought of that myself.
However, neither of the (physical) HDMI outputs is paired with DP3, the
output RandR recognizes is connected when the VGA monitor is connected.
So I don't expect
> Is there any way I can test for it?
Connect something to the HDMI outputs?
> Could it be the case that the X server expects some aspects of the video har$
That's certainly plausible. Is there any way I can test for it? Some
way to, for example, have the kernel do whatever it would do for video
console but still keep console I/O going to com2? (I would expect that
to
Could it be the case that the X server expects some aspects of the video
hardware to be initialized by the video console driver that are uninitialized
in the serial console case? E.g., as you say outputs are shared between HDMI
and VGA, the X video simply goes to the HDMI output?
I don't know whether this is kernel or X11. There are things pointing
each way.
At work, I've got 9.1 on an amd64 machine. When I boot it normally -
console on screen/keyboard - X works fine.
But I'm having an issue. The machine is rebooting on me, sometimes,
and I don't know whether it's
