Author: Arnt Karlsen Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] ..console & X setup these days...
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 11:05:10 +0000, Arnt wrote in message
<20171028110510.3e58558b@d44>:
> Hi,
>
> ..lost power last night while asleep, laptop batteries ran down, OS
> stability proved good enough for my abuse, I only logged in once
> during the last 130 day and 20-ish hours, according to my last run of
> uptime, too much post-Groklaw litigation meant no reboot even on
> kernel updates.
>
> ..booting up this morning, starts nicely with grub @
> 1920x1200x32b@60Hz and winds up with no X wailing "no KMS" and vga
> ttys, which sort of defeats the whole point of having
> 1920x1200x32b@60Hz capable hardware.
>
> ..no X prompted a quick update of linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.3-rt-amd64
> to 4.9.30-2+deb9u5~bpo8+1 (2017-09-28) and still no X.
>
> ..so, what changes did I miss during my 130 day and 20-ish hour kde
> session?
>
..I use vdev-0.1.2, and nouveau, I'm not aware of any news on these.
Did we drop KMS?
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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