Subj : 5.8.8
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Thu Sep 10 2020 21:32:00

Good ${greeting_time}, Maurice!

10 Sep 2020 11:06:40, you wrote to me:

 AV>> kernel-image-rz-5.8.8-zt1.x86_64.rpm
 AV>> kernel-headers-rz-5.8.8-zt1.x86_64.rpm
 AV>> kernel-modules-rz-5.8.8-zt1.x86_64.rpm
 MK> Linux version 5.8.8 (root@bitskii)

That could work for a single machine, annoys when you have 10, and appears almost impossible when you have over a hundred.

 MK> However it still is having troubles with the i915drmfb frame buffer
 MK> device wrt Intel UHD Graphics 630 and mplayer using fbdev2 as the
 MK> output device. It works perfect with pre 5.8.x kernel versions. I
 MK> haven't tried it with anything else since this is the only machine I
 MK> ever do multimedia stuff on at the moment. My best guess is that the
 MK> kernel's framebuffer drivers still need work.

Possibly you've misconfigured it...

% dmesg | grep i915
[    2.171089] i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[    2.173576] i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
[    2.205643] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20200515 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[    2.481708] fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    3.072236] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device

Everything works just fine here.


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