Bug 1010253
| Summary: | GRUB should use efifb driver for graphic fallback | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jan Sedlák <jsedlak> |
| Component: | xorg-x11-drivers | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 20 | CC: | dennis, igor.zubkov, mads, pjones, xgl-maint |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2015-06-29 12:25:00 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Description
Jan Sedlák
2013-09-20 11:30:55 UTC
Correction - driver is not called fbdev, but efifb. Mea culpa, I mistook fbdev for efifb even when I have tested it. Efifb driver doesn't work. But idea remains the same. Since UEFI machines cannot rely on VESA driver, grub should use efifb ideally (when it will work...). You say "GRUB should use" ... but also talk about xdriver= . Please clarify what it is that should change ... and in what way GRUB could change it. I thought that what's default in kernel line is GRUB responsibility... My idea was to use xdriver=efifb instead of vesa on UEFI machines, but I am testing it now and it's kind of strange, it really doesn't work. I will do more testing. Anyway, if grub isn't responsible for default values in kernel line (e. g. xdriver), what is? Anaconda writes /etc/default/grub, it runs grub2-mkconfig which reads that and writes grub.cfg. However, KMS and X should automatically figure out how to do the right thing. Adding configuration is the wrong solution. This message is a reminder that Fedora 20 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 20. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '20'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 20 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 20 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-06-23. Fedora 20 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |