[fedora-arm] I think my USB serial UART died - when will F21 have display support?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 07/28/2014 03:28 PM, Adam Goode wrote:
> Follow along generally at: http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

Thanks, Adam.  Scary that Video is listed under 'hard'.

Clearly the Fedora 19 and 20 remixes have Video working.  But one does 
not imply the other.

So perhaps, for now, I should focus on the Centos 7 port to arm as F19 
is there?

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>
> Adam
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> On 07/28/2014 02:05 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 07/28/2014 07:21 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> I am getting proper console display with
>>>>
>>>> screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
>>>>
>>>> But typing is all garbled.  I am ASSuMEing it is the USB uart.  On
>>>> another system, even the console output comes across as garbled.
>>>>
>>>> I think a neighbor has one I can borrow to test with, or I will have to
>>>> buy another.  Of course if it is the USB UART, why did it fail? Cheap
>>>> chinese device?
>>>>
>>>> So that means for now I cannot work with F21-minimal build.  When will
>>>> F-21-Lxde support my Allwinner A20 (Cubieboard 2) video?
>>> F-21 uses upstream kernels, it will likely still be a while before the
>>> upstream kernels get video / hdmi out support.
>>
>> Now that is truly a disturbing piece of news.
>>
>> Does the vga video on the Cubietruck work?
>>
>> What did you do to get the video working in your F20 remix?
>>
>>> Regards,
>>
>> Yeah.  I guess.  Bad news impacts testing plans.  :(
>>
>> I suppose I can push on with minimal, then what would I need to install so
>> that VNC would work (I assume minimal has no Xorg support).