On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:57:55 -0300 Sebastián Pedersen sebasped@openmailbox.org wrote:

Hi,

When I put in my grub configuration:

GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

and consequently get framebuffer for the console, then xorg vesa driver not render properly, and the fbdev xorg driver stops working the DPMS.

But If I comment that grub line, evething works fine.

The problem is that I use a lot a framebuffer console, and also xorg.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Your best bet is going to be to build the sisfb module for your kernel. That's usually a bit of a pain, but you're in luck, because I wanted to figure out how to do DKMS for in-tree modules... and so I present to you the brand new AUR package linux-sisfb-dkms [1].

Now, I don't actually have a compatible card to test it with, but it modprobes okay so I think I did it right. Anyway, install that, ensure it automatically loads on boot by adding it to modules-load.d, and configure it to use the video mode you want according to the docs [2]. That'll typically be something like the following in a modprobe.d snippet:

options sisfb mode=1024x768x32

Hope that all gets you working!

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-sisfb-dkms/ [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Docume...

~Celti