Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> I confirm that the RX580 does not have framebuffer/KMS support with the ATI
> driver.
> There is KMS support with the AMDGPU driver, sadly it requires some 
> proprietary
> blob :(

I’d expect the framebuffer to always work, at least through VESA, no?

> During the Guix days you mentioned that you went for KMSCON because of 
> encoding
> issues if I recall correctly.  So what about this: on startup, test if KMS is
> supported.  If not, fall back to the default TTY, and too bad for the limited
> encoding :p  Would that work?

That would be a reasonable workaround.

Ludo’.

Reply via email to