Hello, Jorge. On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 22:40:11 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 9:29 PM Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:
> Hi Alan, thanks for the reply > > I must confess that somebody told me by private email that it fails on > > systems which change their screen geometry during boot-up. For example, > > a system which first boots into 80x25, then changes to a frame buffer. > > I know why this is happening, but I don't have a machine to debug it on, > > so the debugging is happening slowly, with the help of my correspondent. > > It also doesn't seem to work on machines with kernel parameters such as > > vga=791. > OK, I don't know much about this kind of stuff, but I don't think > there's a problem there. I have an integrated GPU (intel), driver > i915, resolution 1920x1080. It boots (via Refind) with the proper > resolution, and that's it. All the VTs show the same resolution and > font. I don't use a login manager. No problems, no change is supposed > to happen. I start an X session from a login shell, in any VT except > tty1, which I like to keep as console. Sounds pretty much like my setup. :-) > > I'm assuming that the patch you tried to apply was > > 5.10.49-scroll.20210715.diff. If so, please leave it applied (with the > > one failed hunk), and additionally apply this: > I may have missed some announcement from you, I'm using > diff.20210405.diff. I wasn't aware of newer versions. Is there an URL > to download it? I would try it before trying to apply the patch > included in your message. I'm currently discovering what version control systems are for. :-( Even though I've only posted two or three versions of my patch, I'm already having difficulty keeping track of it. I no longer believe keeping the patch informally is going to work. I think I'm going to have to clone the git repository of the kernel (about which I'm going to ask on another thread). Anyhow, back to the topic. There's no URL with my patch; it's purely posted on gentoo-users. Maybe I should put it into the Gentoo wiki. But first, I must get it into a proper VCS. As for the two(?) versions of my patch, they differed mainly in the aesthetics - diff.20210405.diff had lots of ugly maintainer comments in it. So, could I ask you please to try that 1-hunk patch I posted yesterday on top of the version you have. Please then tell me whether or not it works. I am going to get this unsystematic muddle sorted out. > Thanks, > Jorge Almeida -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
