On Sun, 2024-10-06 at 15:26 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 13:52 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 19:32 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 17:26 +0000, George R Goffe via test wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I've been having a consistent failure of startx apparently due to > > > > the > > > > addition of "nomodeset" to the kernel boot parameters. I have > > > > been > > > > using "nomodeset" for several years. This has been happening for > > > > about 2 weeks. See startx log below. > > > > > > > > Has anyone else seen this problem? > > > > > > > > > > > > > we drop int10 everywhere and obsolete vesa and fbdev X drivers [1] > > > > > > if is related please try 21.1.13-3 > > > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2556149 > > > > > > also need to check if you got vesa and fbdev installed > > > > What xorg driver is expected to be used now with nomodeset, if not > > vesa > > or fbdev? > > I tried keep int10 etc , but the argument was that everything was > replaced by modesetting and simpledrm and RHEL already removed int10 > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceFbdevDrivers#Detailed_Description I have to admit I didn't quite understand this justification, since that change is from several releases ago and the scope says nothing about removing X.org drivers.... > so I guess nomodeset option also should be remove from the kernel > because now is useless , unless George or someone else show that still > be useful , i.e. simpledrm doesn't replace it . Well, I know it's still sometimes used if e.g. you have a very new NVIDIA card that the nouveau driver is confused by. Is there a different option that should now be used in such a case to force the use of simpledrm instead of a native driver? -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @adamw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
