Re: [9front] figuring out what to add in vgadb?

[Jens Staal <staal1978@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 06:02:28AM +0200, Jens Staal wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 11:58:36PM +0200, qwx@sciops.net wrote:
> > On Fri Apr  5 13:38:17 +0200 2024, staal1978@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I am pretty happy with 9front on a cheap refurbished laptop, especially
> > > now that ethernet over usb has been solved and I have built the latest
> > > netsurf on it.
> > > 
> > > One little annoyance still is that I run at crappy resolution and can
> > > not set it with aux/vga (and setting vgasize in plan9.ini did nothing)
> > > Sysinfo can be seen here:
> > > http://sysinfo.9front.org/src/542/body
> > > 
> > > Is there a similar trick to how usbtree could figure out what to do to
> > > get nusb/ether to work but for graphics?
> > > 
> > > this entry from pci -v probably relevant but is there a way to translate
> > > that to a vgadb entry?
> > > 
> > > 0.2.0:	vid  03.00.00 8086/3185 255 0:a0000004 16777216 2:9000000c 268435456 4:0000f001 64
> > > 	Intel Corporation GeminiLake [UHD Graphics 600]
> > 
> > Your card is a gemini lake gen igfx, which we unfortunately don't yet
> > support; our latest gen is broadwell, with work underway for skylake.
> > For now, vesa or the uefi framebuffer you're handed are the best you
> > could get.  An external monitor may work with vesa as well (see vga(8)
> > for example usage), but it's somewhat unlikely.
> >
> 
> Thanks. Good to know that it is a driver issue and not "just" a
> recognition issue (like nusb/ether). I will check if I can enhance it by
> the UEFI framebuffer.
>

a quick update: I could fix the resolution buy setting a higher
resolution in grub (dual booting 9front and Chimera Linux on this
machine). Could be good to know for people that do the same.

> The resolution will be less of an issue when I got Sigrid's
> riow/bar/theming set up. Especially having multiple work spaces will
> definitely help.
> 
> > Hope that helps,
> > qwx