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Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling <at> bjoernhoefling.de>, "pelzflorian \(Florian Pelz\)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>, 36069 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
Subject: bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 15:47:04 +0200

Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net> skribis:

[...]

>>> Great find! Indeed, lspci lists
>>>
>>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446
>>>
>>> Is this something that could be fixed by including a driver for that
>>> card in the kernel?
>>
>> I suppose so.
>>
>> Mark, WDYT about adding support for Cirrus VGA cards to the kernel?
>> What would it take to do so?
>
> I know of two kernel configuration options for Cirrus video cards:
>
>   CONFIG_DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU: Cirrus driver for QEMU emulated device
>   CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS: Cirrus Logic support
>
> CONFIG_DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU is enabled as a module in all of our
> configurations except for 5.2-arm-veyron.conf.  CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS is
> enabled as a module in all of our x86_64 and i686 configurations.
>
> Is there something else I've overlooked?

Oh, I see.

Robert and Björn, could you check if adding the ‘cirrus’ and possibly
the ‘cirrusfb’ module(s) to ‘initrd-modules’ in the image you run at
your VPS solves the issue?

TIA,
Ludo’.

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