On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 05:20:14PM -0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Hello Christian,
> Between the vesa(4) and wsfb(4) X11 video driver, are there any advantages > one has over the other? > > I have a brand new laptop (Kaby Lake) whose integrated graphics chipset > isn't yet supported by inteldrm(4)/intel(4). On a Skylake machine from last year, I found a couple of odd things happening with vesa. The one I remember is that if my phone was charging from the machine at boot, the BIOS reported incorrect vesa details that meant I couldn't run X (I have no idea why; presumably the BIOS developers no longer test non-UEFI code paths properly). vesa was also, ISTR, too slow to play video sensibly, although I might be wrong about that. wsfb worked flawlessly as soon as I switched. I'm not pretending that my experience is anything other than a single anecdote though. Laurie -- Personal http://tratt.net/laurie/ Software Development Team http://soft-dev.org/ https://github.com/ltratt http://twitter.com/laurencetratt
