On Sun, 2025-09-07 at 13:16 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > On 9/5/25 6:27 PM, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > > ... > > > > Would you send your xorg.conf, etc., please? I can only seem to > > get > > Xorg to launch by passing in video=ofonly. I can't get it to work > > with > > fbdev either. > > ... > > > I've been testing kernels on my Wallstreet using a current Gentoo > distribution. > > I noticed this morning that mainline kernel v6.1, compiled using the > attached .config file, works in Gentoo, but not in Debian SID. > > In Debian, I can see the X11 login screen, but the keyboard and mouse > don't respond. In Gentoo, everything works as expected. > > In Debian SID, I'm using Xfce, sysvinit-core instead of systemd, and > wdm > instead of lightdm. > > In Gentoo, I noticed elogind was installed; elogind was not installed > in > Debian. Using "apt-get install elogind" to install elogind, systemd > was > removed, as well as xserver-org and some X11-related files, so of > course > X11 doesn't work at all now, and I'll need to restore from a backup. > Interestingly, I'm not having similar issues with PB Lombard or > Pismo. > > My BootX configuration is as follows (working X11 in 6.1.0 in > Gentoo): > Kernel: vmlinux-6.1.0-pmac (custom kernel, no modules) > Boot Device: /dev/sda13 (Gentoo partition) > More kernel arguments: video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32,mclk:71 > No video driver: checked > Options: > Force SCSI ON: checked > Force video settings: checked > Use specified RAM disk: not checked
Checking "No video driver" appears to pass in video=ofonly. How is your performance with this configuration? Mine is borderline unusable. mclk:71 makes everything green. > > I'll probably end up using whatever .config file the developer who > investigates the possible kernel regressions recommends. > > I'm not using an xorg.conf file in either Debian SID or Gentoo (I > haven't needed to use an xorg.conf file since Debian 7.8 in Sparc64). > > For now I'll be sticking with Gentoo for these particular kernel > regression tests.
