[OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

[Toomas Soome]

VESA only can work when adapter does have VESA/VGA bios. With UEFI, there is no requirement to have it. 

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> On 22. Apr 2021, at 16:26, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
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> VESA *does* work with a UEFI boot. I had 2020.10 booting from a 4x 4 TB RAIDZ2 pool using the VESA driver before I tried to boot 2021.04_rc1.
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> On Thursday, April 22, 2021, 08:07:18 AM CDT, Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:
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> This is a known broken configuration of OI. It cannot work. The VESA
> driver is a fall-back driver in Xorg. It only runs if the other
> drivers all fail. Unfortunately, the VESA driver does not work with
> a UEFI boot. As long as the nvidia driver succeeds, it will be
> selected by Xorg, and VESA will never be used. The Xorg log will
> contain this information.
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