Re: More than 256/512 glyphs on the Liinux console

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Wed Feb 26 2025 - 06:15:03 EST


On 26. 02. 25, 11:09, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
I don't know why distros seem to not be using it anymore, maybe there's
something else?

FWIW I re-tried that thing yesterday and it doesn't work with FB_DEVICE=n at all... We disabled FB_DEVICE in openSUSE in 6.12.9.

kmscon should work with drm directly and be able to use even acceleration. But it renders nothing for me (without fbdev). Reported at:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237599

thanks,
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