https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478384
Bug ID: 478384
Summary: Please port the Aspeed ast2500 drivers to the wayland
compositor and/or maintain Xorg meanwhile (black
screen requiring hard reboot)
Classification: Plasma
Product: kwin
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: wayland-generic
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: ytr...@sdf-eu.org
Target Milestone: ---
The Apseed ast2500 might be very old hardware but it s the graphic card of my 2
year old Intel motherboard with recent Xeon cpus and is still being produced.
The driver is now maintained only for Windows (leaving Freebsd and having only
console support on Linux) but it had a dual Linux and Freebsd ports. I m
meaning that either you have modeseting or you have to use nomodeset in order
to use a window environment with the `ast_drv.so` Xorg (the kernel drm driver
is exclusive of the Xorg driver and it doesn t support Xorg).
So the Xorg driver binary is a old full userspace driver that nevertheless
allow playing drm videos that require support from the graphics card for the
drm decoding.
Reproducible: Always
Actual Results on Wayland:
whether modeset is enabled or disabled, screen become black and still stay
black even when returning to console (hard reboot required). This is the same
thing that happens with Xorg when the driver isn t installed even if you don t
use the kernel module compiled from proprietary blobs.
Expected Results:
Be able to use Xorg until compatibility solution is found in order to be able
to use Graphical desktop or have the driver code ported to Wayland.
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