Adjusting basic video driver testcase for UEFI systems
Adam Jackson
ajax at redhat.com
Fri Jul 12 17:15:42 UTC 2013
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 09:06 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > But if you say 'nomodeset' on kcmdline you'll stick with efifb
> > at runtime, so in that sense testing this is the same as with BIOS
> > systems.
> > The visible difference at X time is that you'll be using the fbdev
> > driver instead of the vesa driver, and that RANDR won't work.
>
> Ajax,
>
> for the purposes of a test case, what's the reliable way to detect
> that the machine uses efifb driver (instead of, say, nouveau or
> cirrus)? Is there a better way than to scan Xorg.0.log?
The X log is the place to discover what X driver is in use.
- ajax
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