fbdev and vesa for hyper-v

2019-02-25 Thread IL Ka
Hello. I run Linux as Hyper-V guest. It seems that there is no DRI/DRM driver for Hyper-V videocard, but there is Framebuffer driver for it. So, I enabled framebuffer driver and my idea was to run XOrg using fbdev driver on top of it. But there is no such driver in modern Linux distros. Questio

Re: fbdev and vesa for hyper-v

2019-02-25 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 18:33 +0300, IL Ka wrote: > I run Linux as Hyper-V guest. > > It seems that there is no DRI/DRM driver for Hyper-V videocard, but > there is Framebuffer driver for it. > > So, I enabled framebuffer driver and my idea was to run XOrg using > fbdev driver on top of it. > But

Re: fbdev and vesa for hyper-v

2019-02-25 Thread IL Ka
Hello Adam, Could have fooled me. I see fbdev driver builds in current versions of > Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, and openSUSE. What distro are you using > that lacks it? > Slackware:) I see xf86-video-fbdev in "extras" folder, but it is i586 version. And there is no x64 version. After reading

Re: fbdev and vesa for hyper-v

2019-02-25 Thread IL Ka
PS: I just build fbdev from /extras/sources on slackware dvd and it seems to work now. [20.515] (**) FBDEV(0): claimed PCI slot 0@0:8:0 [20.515] (II) FBDEV(0): using default device [20.515] (==) FBDEV(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32 [20.515] (==) FBDEV(0): RGB weight 888 [