X on UEFI systems.

[Vasily Levchenko]

On Dec 12, 2009, at 1:27 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 17:14 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
>> On 12/11/2009 02:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 08:57 +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote:
>>>> Dne 10.12.2009 07:36, Vasily Levchenko napsal(a):
>>>>>> Does it not work without an xorg.conf, that would be the first goal.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> No.
>>>> 
>>>> File a bug please, attaching your xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log and output of
>>>> the dmesg command (all from inside of VB virtual machine, of course).
>>> 
>>> ...aaaand (oh boy, I love it when a plan comes together) mark it as
>>> blocking F13Beta , because I reckon this breaks beta criterion #4:
>>> 
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Beta_Release_Criteria
>> 
>> I like the sentiment here, but I'm not sure this is really in the
>> spirit of the criteria - Vasily, as I understand it, is still in the
>> process of implementing the support for UEFI on VirtualBox.


>> 
>> Which is to say, yes, we need to fix the parts that are distro problems,
>> but I'm not sure we've gotten to the point where VirtualBox+UEFI is
>> expected to be a working system in the first place.
>> 
>> But maybe I'm wrong - Vasily, what do you think?
> 

Right, we still in progress (e.g. VBox 3.1 is failing to load FC12 with ACPI, and it can't load
Windows Vista and 7/EFI) but with VBox 3.1 with manually edited config runs FC11(i386/x86_64)
fine.


>> From what I saw in the thread, the bug seems to be that X is assuming
> the presence of a VGA BIOS, which would seem to be a fairly generic
> problem that would hit any EFI setup.

I guess real EFI systems has proprietary  drivers + corresponding drivers, e.g. nvidia, 
and there're no serious reasons to use vga bios. 

> AIUI anyway. See Vasily's message
> of a couple of days ago. But I could be wrong, and also I'm not sure why
> he's testing with F11 rather than F12 or Rawhide.
> 

About rawhide, could you please give me some pointers on ISO images, 
instructions for kernel compilations (looks like it bit different from compilation of 
vanilla kernels)? 

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