Packard on the state of Linux graphics [LWN.net]

Packard on the state of Linux graphics

Posted May 14, 2009 10:25 UTC (Thu) by robbe (guest, #16131)
In reply to: Packard on the state of Linux graphics by nix
Parent article: Packard on the state of Linux graphics

> Mind you, I've just bought a machine with an Aspeed AST2050 card,

This is a glorified frame buffer (typically) inside the service processor
that you can access remotely to install OSes that don't feel well over a
serial console (I'm looking towards Redmond here).

A lot of serious servers come with something equivalent. As its main use
is installation and recovery graphics acceleration does not make sense
IMO.

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Packard on the state of Linux graphics

Posted May 14, 2009 20:41 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Ah! I was wondering if this was in some way related to the
apparently-undocumented 'iKVM' feature (comes with really annoying
ungoogleable name identical save for case to that of major Java package).
Apparently it is.

(I'll see if it's documented in the motherboard manual when the machine
arrives tomorrow, after one motherboard failure and one evaporation in
courier transit. Someone Up There does *not* want me to have this
machine.)