Notes on testing F18 in an EFI environment

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On 11/14/2012 04:07 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:43 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> 
>> 3)  The installed system won't take to the FB X server by itself, I had
>>     to mangle a xorg.conf file to bring up an 800x600 fbdev instance and
>>     then let firstboot run on a reboot
> 
> That's a bug, sir.  X on efifb should work without intervention.  I'd
> appreciate seeing the X log from this scenario (ie, without xorg.conf).
> 
> - ajax

BZ 876786 submitted with Xorg.0.log attached.

Note that adding a simle section to the xorg.conf.d makes it work.

Section "Device"
  Identifier "EFI"
  Driver     "fbdev"
EndSection

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G.Wolfe Woodbury
redwolfe at gmail.com (proventesters)