From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Apr 12 10:48:45 2020 Received: (at 40538) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Apr 2020 14:48:45 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58660 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jNduf-0002Os-Ja for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 10:48:45 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-f67.google.com ([209.85.128.67]:50554) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jNdue-0002Oe-0f for 40538@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 10:48:44 -0400 Received: by mail-wm1-f67.google.com with SMTP id x25so7241258wmc.0 for <40538@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 07:48:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:message-id:user-agent :mime-version; bh=At4p0v8u32HI+LFShzjmQEs0z5BhSHVmw1288nsLwds=; b=KcffDrs9/VHDnI4dg4+97yyMXbWypuj2S9BxtsE6RQndkVNGKmCJzgxtnSsbGhEsDE EVUdhXHNFmJLR+6J3Jx+mhvhr4QIUO3SDm/GZWJfi8DwU4kossOOgDPk9nQF9VZ0sJHy 04hucxAtNzowux56f8HfzH1uExUdP/vyJWB8+7gRzBZVVQaGqmpBnEslERf5OBfX4TsJ p9QhAiEYnKkNRNutNc5+BITTkxVkpWv8AFq2zdVzE2/kH0JbGpyWTYACUE8YUO5PwB8e wHwqiqAB73C5tr2Wxo88q1SKOYBkCPhIbaiJUU4JXyZiKzFrBhtfnIRC1mPZL8cS4xoB ZU1g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:message-id :user-agent:mime-version; bh=At4p0v8u32HI+LFShzjmQEs0z5BhSHVmw1288nsLwds=; b=eSqpdJzwt6DasNe4Mley98Dz7+GGNFVcbuGkQJbqwXAAuYDonp+4LIfLhjLwPt/++m 4or0Yw5sOfeYYqelR6fXOxqUK3B3KmjP6eNDdang8Erkggl5UaO+SFXO2Qe3aISJV0c+ mgtf+gfRKQdhVNG0Sw9AieMOdoFUAnrKL9+7/FnosxAMscpL5mJqOSbf6H9fiiIeqkCr x8ownoKiI71+jlXYfN48K20d0LAemXjYda4/Bixu5aBzKUktj1qVqZsdfVAjJu7Ng9+M oD203vPjpVO86TV45s7dKlfBPWUGiG/OAeUdnR3U/TlTVIGno0Q9PyQDm29rw6N89k4s om3Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AGi0Pubt9L2z50BCFF9t2a5cPhODO6aDhHOqsKlMdCl03BSe2Ypj3qfa 7k/MbN+xL0RXeCNFsjd0mVX0gKeD/3Y= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APiQypL8apjX++75BjJGJy4rYANfECYHbMc+Ad39TO3QUICdkk8AfnK/UhTBRvChh6QGLX47FpWzhQ== X-Received: by 2002:a7b:cb86:: with SMTP id m6mr13723610wmi.64.1586702917970; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 07:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from meru ([2a01:cb18:832e:5f00:bc45:32:8738:64bc]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l185sm10807355wml.44.2020.04.12.07.48.37 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 12 Apr 2020 07:48:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Mathieu Othacehe To: "pelzflorian \(Florian Pelz\)" Subject: Re: bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS. References: <20200410125447.smn6xhcixe7hpday@pelzflorian.localdomain> <87tv1rv21e.fsf@gnu.org> <20200411184346.c3cgop7egcjyqzwf@pelzflorian.localdomain> <874ktpspr5.fsf@gnu.org> <20200412090257.jxljqbkwfhn7afnr@pelzflorian.localdomain> <20200412112400.x4qufeztdnkmzqhx@pelzflorian.localdomain> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:48:36 +0200 Message-ID: <874ktooj3v.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: -0.8 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 40538 Cc: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , 40538@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.8 (-) Hey! > All is fine vga=793 does not break uvesafb on my Acer Aspire but does > not help either. Only on QEMU vga=793 broke everything. Maybe leave > the patch as is. Thanks for your patch. I tried briefly 1.1.0-rc2 on some hardware of mine. On three somehow recent laptops, everything still works fine but v86d segfaults without giving much information. The 'dmesg' output looks like: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- v86d[371]: segfault at xxxxx. uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=1) uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22 uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -22 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- On a really old Intel machine, I have a complete black screen on all TTY but that was maybe the case on older Guix System revisions and I would need to do more investigations. Mathieu