Dropped kdrive == fbdev regression

2017-03-10 Thread Steven Newbury
Since kdrive, in particular Xfbdev has been dropped, this has left a hole in support for MONO (1bpp) framebuffer devices. I've been using Xfbdev for a picolcd mono matrix device for a few years. The Xorg fbdev driver only supports a minimum of 8bpp framebuffer formats which wasn't a problem given

Re: Dropped kdrive == fbdev regression

2017-03-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 12:52 +, Steven Newbury wrote: > Since kdrive, in particular Xfbdev has been dropped, this has left a > hole in support for MONO (1bpp) framebuffer devices.  I've been using > Xfbdev for a picolcd mono matrix device for a few years. > > The Xorg fbdev driver only supports

Re: Dropped kdrive == fbdev regression

2017-03-10 Thread Steven Newbury
On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 11:25 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 12:52 +, Steven Newbury wrote: > > Since kdrive, in particular Xfbdev has been dropped, this has left > > a > > hole in support for MONO (1bpp) framebuffer devices.  I've been > > using > > Xfbdev for a picolcd mono

maybe xorg server?: gnome is not starting without a screen connected?

2017-03-10 Thread Simon Eigeldinger
Hi all, I am a blind person from austria. I am using the computer often without a screen. I figured out on many distros there are issues with the desktop without a screen. Seems the desktop isn't coming up when no screen is connected? I read in the arch wiki that this is caused by the screen au