[oi-dev] Error from the vesa driver (Was: libdrm-2.4.75 is too old)

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sat Jun 6 15:59:38 UTC 2020


On 6/5/20 5:19 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
> With a bit more experimentation, I discovered that I only get the
> error from the vesa driver when I boot the USB image in UEFI mode with
> CSM disabled.

That's what I'd expect, as the vesa driver requires legacy BIOS support,
and a pure UEFI environment doesn't support VESA graphics, but instead
requires generic video access to use UEFI's Graphics Output Protocol.

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