Re: vesa_drv compatibility question

2012-07-25 Thread Henrik Pauli
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?

Re: vesa_drv compatibility question

2012-07-25 Thread Alex Deucher
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

Re: vesa_drv compatibility question

2012-07-23 Thread Adam Jackson
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

Re: vesa_drv compatibility question

2012-07-23 Thread soul
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

vesa_drv compatibility question

2012-07-22 Thread soul
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