xorgwizard and UEFI: Failed to startx

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mistfire · #1 Post by **mistfire** » Tue 04 Oct 2016, 07:16

I tried to boot puppy on UEFI mode using the latest edition of xslacko-slim it was completely success but X does not start because VESA driver is not applicable on UEFI because in depends on BIOS but FBDEV driver works on UEFI and starts X.

I suggest that xorgwizard scripts must add a feature to detect if the system was BIOS or UEFI. If UEFI boot is detected and no appropriate video driver found then FBDEV driver must be selected in order to start X.

Sailor Enceladus · #2 Post by **Sailor Enceladus** » Tue 04 Oct 2016, 07:48

Isn't fbdev only needed when running in a virtual machine? I thought I read that somewhere, never tried puppy in a vm though.

Slacko 6.3.2 is old news now though, it's all about Slacko 6.9.6.3 now.

mistfire · #3 Post by **mistfire** » Tue 04 Oct 2016, 08:55

I used virtualbox in UEFI mode to test my pup in UEFI boot.

linuxcbon · #4 Post by **linuxcbon** » Tue 04 Oct 2016, 16:23

What video card do you have ? Fbdev is mostly abandoned and should be avoided. See : http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kern ... 00253.html

fbdev is (more or less) maintained, but it's a deprecated framework. All new Linux display drivers should be done on DRM.

mistfire · #5 Post by **mistfire** » Wed 05 Oct 2016, 01:45

@linuxcbon the video card was virtualbox emulated. If the fbdev was depreciated. Why this driver work on UEFI system. Do you have any alternative xorg driver for fbdev which work which work on all video cards but it does not depend on bios and 10H interrupt. In short, VESA-like driver for UEFI.

linuxcbon · #6 Post by **linuxcbon** » Wed 05 Oct 2016, 11:42

I don't use emulators. An idea would be to emulate a real video card like amd or nvidia ? So it doesn't seem like a bug but like you don't know what settings to use for your emulator.

jamesbond · #7 Post by **jamesbond** » Wed 05 Oct 2016, 12:23

mistfire wrote:If the fbdev was depreciated. Why this driver work on UEFI system.

There are two "fbdev" - "fbdev" the kernel module. This is indeed deprecated, as per linuxcbon's link.
The other "fbdev" is the "fbdev" Xorg driver module. This one is definitely *not* deprecated.

Do you have any alternative xorg driver for fbdev which work which work on all video cards but it does not depend on bios and 10H interrupt. In short, VESA-like driver for UEFI.

There is none.

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