On 2020/08/01 22:21, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > pci11 at ppb9 bus 10
> > vga1 at pci11 dev 0 function 0 "ASPEED Technology AST2000" rev 0x30
> 
> This is the BMC graphics and seems to be the only grapics device
> available on this machine.

Correct.

> > wsdisplay at vga1 not configured
> 
> And I think this means the BIOS did not configure it as the primary
> graphics device and/or an active VGA device.  I'm not sure VGA text
> mode will work in such a setup so even if wsdisplay(4) would attach
> here it probably wouldn't work.

Aha. That sounds plausible, thanks.

> Any reason why you've chosen to installl this machine as a "legacy
> BIOS" machine instead of UEFI?  I think the latter would have given
> you efifb(4).

Mostly because I normally pxeboot machines to install them, and I
couldn't figure out how to get that to work with UEFI.

Reply via email to