[openchrome-users] VIA K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A crashes X in 1.20.3 & earlier (solved)

[Felix Miata]

Felix Miata composed on 2018-12-17 03:16 (UTC-0500):

> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openchrome-users/2018-December/007347.html
> seems to suggest I should expect new enough software versions to work, but that's
> not happening for me. X quickly aborts when attempted:

> # inxi -Gxx
> Graphics:  Device-1: VIA K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.0
>            chip ID: 1106:3108
>            Display: server: X.org 1.20.3 driver: vesa FAILED: openchrome unloaded: fbdev,modesetting alternate: via
>            tty: 128x48
>            Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console for root.

> # egrep 'EE|ernel' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> [   664.417] Current Operating System: Linux k8mmv 4.19.7-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 7 10:43:38 UTC 2018 (5fabf51) x86_64
> [   664.417] Kernel command line: root=LABEL=stw-wd12 ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 noresume vga=791 video=1024x768 at 60 video=1440x900 at 60 5

Problem solved by stripping video-related parameters from cmdline, though it leaves the vttys
in 80x25 text mode.
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