Closed Conan-Kudo closed 6 months ago
Sorry got issue numbers wrong in my commits:
https://github.com/serpent-os/recipes/commit/881e65a8a2ee5cad6107f050d4f18389c7a38a58 https://github.com/serpent-os/recipes/commit/198e9e4680109d2bab9ffb88caffe60990041f4e
Please replace fbdev with SimpleDRM in the SerpentOS kernel.
It's recommended by KDE and GNOME requires this too.
By having SimpleDRM in place, Wayland environments will work in cases where you don't have a DRM driver (e.g. when blocking nouveau and nvidia driver failed to build or similar). Replacing the fbdev interface with emulation by DRM also means that everything that uses framebuffer API will transparently switch to DRM and work fine.
This was a pre-requisite for Fedora KDE dropping X11 for KDE Plasma 6 in Fedora 40:
And of course, the "future major RHEL release" is RHEL 10: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/rhel-10-plans-wayland-and-xorg-server