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bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:58:55 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Robert Vollmert <address@hidden> skribis:
>> On 26. Jun 2019, at 22:23, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:51:41PM +0200, Björn Höfling wrote:
>>> What's the conclusion? Maybe that Guix is fine and the VNC-clients are
>>> also fine. It might just be a matter of configuration or using an older
>>> version with bugs?
>>>
>>
>> Passing “-vga cirrus” reduces the display size.
>>
>> The command “man qemu” says:
>>
>> -vga type
>> Select type of VGA card to emulate. Valid values for type
>> are
>>
>> cirrus
>> Cirrus Logic GD5446 Video card. All Windows versions
>> starting from Windows 95 should recognize and use
>> this graphic card. For optimal performances, use 16
>> bit color depth in the guest and the host OS. (This
>> card was the default before QEMU 2.2)
>>
>> So presumably the VPS is using an old QEMU or passes -vga cirrus.
>
> Great find! Indeed, lspci lists
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446
>
> Is this something that could be fixed by including a driver for that
> card in the kernel?
I suppose so.
Mark, WDYT about adding support for Cirrus VGA cards to the kernel?
What would it take to do so?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC,
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