I received a reply from alanc on #openindiana IRC channel: "<alanc> the only thing I can think of is you have to have Legacy BIOS support for the VESA driver to work, it can't work in a legacy-free/UEFI-only system"
and I fear he's hit the nail on its head: My new Lenovo laptop is my first one that does no longer have an UEFI with "legacy BIOS" support, i.e. there is no such thing as an UEFI CSM module that I could activate. So in case I am out of an UEFI CSM, I am also out of luck with the X11 vesa driver and thus any X11 on this system (Ryzen 7; Vega 8)? Sad news, but modern times... Looks like we'll find ourselves in a world pretty soon where OI/Illumos in GUI mode only runs on virtual "hardware", but no longer on bare metal :-( But I refuse to carry an ARM SoC to provide the GUI to remotely access an OI text mode install running on my laptop's bare metal... ;-) Summary: So this turns out to be my first laptop after more than a decade (almost 15 years, IIRC) which will no longer be capable to (muti-)boot into an OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana GUI on true hardware... sigh! :-( Thanks anyway, best regards & have a Happy New Year! :-) Andreas ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tddb07e1a2c5c8da3-M6fbb4617ce271dc5c26ec4c1 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
