Hello Adam, On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Adam Jackson <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 7/22/12 5:38 AM, soul wrote: > >> " >> SUPPORTED HARDWARE >> The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible video cards. There >> are >> some known exceptions, and those should be listed here. >> " >> >> Is there a list of such "known exceptions"? That is, VESA-compatible >> cards which are known NOT to work at all or well enough with this >> driver? > > > I don't know of such a list. Possibly one existed when that man page was > written. > > >> Secondly, in more general terms, how likely is it to find Laptops >> (especially), or PC/monitor combinations which are NOT >> VESA-compatible? > > > Right now, the odds of that are close to zero. > > In about a year or two, for new hardware, those odds are going to be much > closer to one. The UEFI transition is going to mean that the vesa driver > will no longer work. > > Why do you ask?
Thank you for your answer: this is perfectly fine for me. I ask because I am doing a custom LiveCD with a software demo, which as part of the show, should also work on a machine I will not have access to until the actual event. By targeting VESA I am hoping to therefore reduce the risk of an unpleasant surprise at runtime. This UEFI transition seems bad news.. I guess it will be more difficult for these use cases in the future. Thanks, C. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
