[Openchrome-users] VE-900 and Debian 9.3 openchrome getting a blank screen

[Kevin Brace]

Hi P Touchman,

I will say that this sounds like vesafb and viafb conflicting with OpenChrome DDX since Debian 9 uses Linux 4.9 kernel.
This has been an issue since Linux 4.5 kernel.
I created a post about this issue since it is a FAQ.

https://bracecomputerlab.com/2018/04/20/how-to-get-openchrome-working-on-debian-9/

This issue does not affect Ubuntu since it already blacklists the frame buffer device drivers.
Currently, no support for VX900 HDMI inside OpenChrome DDX and the effort to support it has stalled for now.

Kevin Brace
Brace Computer Laboratory blog
https://bracecomputerlab.com


> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:26:25 -0700
> From: P Touchman <ptouchman at gmail.com>
> To: openchrome-users at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: [Openchrome-users] VE-900 and Debian 9.3 openchrome getting a
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> Hi all,
> 
> I was trying to run Debian 9.3 32 bit and use the openchrome on a VIA
> VE-900 board and I only get a blank screen.
> 
> I installed debian to a hard drive on another system, and installed the
> openchrome server with synaptic, then moved the hard drive to the VE-900.
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/x11/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
> 
> 
> Once debian boots, I get a black screen.
> 
> I can switch to text mode with CTRL+ALT+F1 and back to graphics with
> CTRL+ALT+F5.
> 
> I tried both the VGA and HDMI ports on the VE-900 and both have black
> screens.
> 
> In text mode I can log in to debian just fine, so I reckon something must
> be working...I looked very quickly at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and I could see
> that it was using openchrome.
> 
> The VE-900 is in another location but I'll bring it home to get some more
> log information.
> 
> Any ideas?
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