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Hello, Jorge. |
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 22:40:11 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 9:29 PM Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi Alan, thanks for the reply |
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> > I must confess that somebody told me by private email that it fails on |
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> > systems which change their screen geometry during boot-up. For example, |
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> > a system which first boots into 80x25, then changes to a frame buffer. |
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> > I know why this is happening, but I don't have a machine to debug it on, |
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> > so the debugging is happening slowly, with the help of my correspondent. |
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> > It also doesn't seem to work on machines with kernel parameters such as |
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> > vga=791. |
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> OK, I don't know much about this kind of stuff, but I don't think |
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> there's a problem there. I have an integrated GPU (intel), driver |
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> i915, resolution 1920x1080. It boots (via Refind) with the proper |
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> resolution, and that's it. All the VTs show the same resolution and |
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> font. I don't use a login manager. No problems, no change is supposed |
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> to happen. I start an X session from a login shell, in any VT except |
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> tty1, which I like to keep as console. |
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Sounds pretty much like my setup. :-) |
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> > I'm assuming that the patch you tried to apply was |
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> > 5.10.49-scroll.20210715.diff. If so, please leave it applied (with the |
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> > one failed hunk), and additionally apply this: |
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> I may have missed some announcement from you, I'm using |
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> diff.20210405.diff. I wasn't aware of newer versions. Is there an URL |
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> to download it? I would try it before trying to apply the patch |
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> included in your message. |
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I'm currently discovering what version control systems are for. :-( |
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Even though I've only posted two or three versions of my patch, I'm |
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already having difficulty keeping track of it. I no longer believe |
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keeping the patch informally is going to work. I think I'm going to |
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have to clone the git repository of the kernel (about which I'm going to |
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ask on another thread). |
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Anyhow, back to the topic. There's no URL with my patch; it's purely |
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posted on gentoo-users. Maybe I should put it into the Gentoo wiki. |
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But first, I must get it into a proper VCS. |
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As for the two(?) versions of my patch, they differed mainly in the |
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aesthetics - diff.20210405.diff had lots of ugly maintainer comments in |
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it. So, could I ask you please to try that 1-hunk patch I posted |
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yesterday on top of the version you have. Please then tell me whether |
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or not it works. |
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I am going to get this unsystematic muddle sorted out. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Jorge Almeida |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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