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On Sunday, January 28, 2018 11:35:33 AM CET Dan Johansson wrote: |
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> On 28.01.2018 00:13, Corbin Bird wrote: |
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> Thanks for your feedback. |
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> > . |
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> > Thank you for that info. |
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> > . |
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> > What kind of integrated VGA? |
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> > ( example Intel i915, i965, etc. ) |
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> According to the MB docu is it a "ASPEED AST2400 BMC" Video controller. |
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> > . |
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> > The reason I ask is that the EFI framebuffer you have enabled should be |
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> > built into a specific video driver. |
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> > My system has an "amdgpu" video card. |
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> > The EFI framebuffer driver for the console is enabled. |
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> > The specific video driver called "amdgpu" is also enabled. |
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> > The EFI framebuffer is built as a sub-component of the specific video |
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> > driver "amdgpu". |
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> > . |
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> > |
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> > Sample dmesg output : |
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> >> [ 6.223405] [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled. |
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> >> [ 6.223573] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (POLARIS10 |
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> >> 0x1002:0x67DF 0x1682:0x9480 0xC7) |
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> >> [ 6.882691] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67 |
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> >> [ 6.900623] amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: fb0: amdgpudrmfb frame buffer device |
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> > |
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> > . |
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> > If you haven't already run this command, please do so : lspci | grep -i |
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> > VGA |
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> # lspci | grep VGA |
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> 06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED |
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> Graphics Family (rev 30) |
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> > If the video device is a 'Aspeed ASTxxxx', the version number of the |
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> > kernel you are using makes a big difference. |
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> # uname -r |
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> 4.9.76-gentoo-r1 |
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> >> ASPEED's AST2500 Display To Be Supported By Linux 4.11's DRM |
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> >> |
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> >> https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/x-org-> >> drm/935002-aspeed-s-ast2500-display-to-be-supported-by-linux-4-11-s-drm |
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> Thanks for that link, I will have to look into that. |
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> Although I will not be using X on this box, as it is a server, it looks |
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> like I need to configure DRM. |
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On a system with the same mainboard: |
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zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i drm |
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# CONFIG_DRM is not set |
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Eg, DRM is not necessary. |
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I don't reboot often enough to find it necessary to "fix" the UEFI boot. Mine |
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still goes into the EFI-shell and from there I start xen. |
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Joost |