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

[Gary Mills]

On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 08:59:38AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that's what I'd expect too, now that I know the cause.  I wonder
how many other people have fallen into the same trap that I fell into?

Apparently, a newer version of the vesa driver issues a more
meaningful error message when it detects UEFI mode.  The current one
only reports that the PCI address is out of range.


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