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.
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