Re: kmscon not working on MacBook

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:26:05AM +0100, Bengt Richter wrote:
> On +2020-03-26 00:00:18 +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> > on one of my computers uvesafb can only be used after „chmmod o+rw
> > /dev/fb0“ which is a security issue, I suppose.
> >
> 
> Are you a member of the video group?

Indeed the issue was that the gdm user was not a member of the video
group.  Thank you!

I have verified the attached patch makes it sufficient to run
`modprobe uvesafb v86d=$(guix build v86d | head -n1)/sbin/v86d
mode_option=1280x800-32` before `herd restart xorg-server` without any
additional chmod.  I will push if nobody objects.

I do however need to remove xf86-video-vesa via
set-xorg-configuration.  Perhaps xf86-video-vesa should not be among
the defaults if uvesafb is to be made a default.  Note that when not
running X as root, xf86-video-vesa does not work anyway.  That’s what
uvesafb is for.

If uvesafb should be made a default, v86d:testvbe could be used to
find a suitable resolution as a mode_option parameter.

However I still do not know how best to modprobe uvesafb
automatically.

Regards,
Florian

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