linux-kernel - Re: More than 256/512 glyphs on the Liinux console

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Message-ID: <5e8af795-53de-4376-a201-697bddc20215@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:14:00 +0100
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Alan Mackenzie <acm@....de>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More than 256/512 glyphs on the Liinux console

On 26. 02. 25, 11:09, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> I don't know why distros seem to not be using it anymore, maybe there's
> something else?

FWIW I re-tried that thing yesterday and it doesn't work with 
FB_DEVICE=n at all... We disabled FB_DEVICE in openSUSE in 6.12.9.

kmscon should work with drm directly and be able to use even 
acceleration. But it renders nothing for me (without fbdev). Reported at:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237599

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs