Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux (phoronix.com)
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- News link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/02/17/2157254/idea-raised-for-nicer-drm-panic-screen-integration-on-fedora-linux
- Source link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Panic-Nicer-Fedora-Idea
> Open-source developer Jose Exposito proposed today a nicer experience for DRM Panic integration on Fedora. Rather than using DRM Panic with just the kernel log contents being encoded in the QR code displayed when a kernel panic occurs, the proposal is to have a customized Fedora web-page with the encoded QR contents to be shown on that web page. Besides having a more pleasant UI/UX, from this web page the intent would also be to make it easier to report this error to the Fedora BugZilla. Being able to easily pass the kernel log to the Fedora bug tracker could help in making upstream aware of the problem(s) and seeing if other users are also encountering similar panics.
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> Right now this idea was just raised earlier today as a " [2]request for comments " on the Fedora mailing list. While a prototype at this point, Exposito already developed a [3]basic [4]web [5]interface for demoing the solution.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Panic-Nicer-Fedora-Idea
[2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/JMGIBLN6EXSASOFGGTVEB7U23WND6SA6/
[3] https://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=2026&image=fedora_panic_1
[4] https://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=2026&image=fedora_panic_2
[5] https://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=2026&image=fedora_panic_3
DRM needs a name change (Score:2)
DRM, digital rights management greatly predates DRM in the display manager context. It also carries a massively bad connotation to it. DRM in the display manager context just needs to concede that to the clusterF that is digital rights management.
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Seriously. Find a better name for KVM while they're at it.
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Why, when Keyboard/Video/Mouse is now essentially deprecated by VMs? Kernel based VMs are far more common than Keyboard/Video/Mouse setups in 2026, by multiple orders of magnitude. Indeed, most people who know about KVM never even think about K/V/M setups, often having never even heard of them.
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KVMs are incredibly popular, especially since the advent of WFH when they're an ideal way to ensure a desktop and "the company laptop" can share a good keyboard and couple of screens.
They were once a thing rarely seen outside of data centers, today they're a commodity item.
Re: DRM needs a name change (Score:2)
It seems they are making a comeback. They aren't nearly close to as common as VMs though. Also, there is no namespace collision, so your claim that they shouldn't use KVM in the OS namespace because it is also used in the hardware namespace continues to be ridiculous.
Re: DRM needs a name change (Score:2)
It's not that ridiculous if you want to search for something that also happens to have attributes common to hardware KVMs. Makes it pretty hard to find anything. Not sure if that's the case here but people calling their software "railway" or "bleach" underestimate the difficulties for end users.
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DRM as in Digital Rights/Restrictions Management isn't in the display context, it is in the copyright usage context. It need not involve computers at all. For example Discmans play DRM protected CDs.(Look Ma ... no video!)
Spam spam spam spam... (Score:2)
But I don't want any DRM. Can't we get a panic screen without DRM?
Well you could always get DRM, DRM, Panic, Sausage, and DRM. That's only got a little bit of DRM in it.
excellent idea! (Score:2)
I always wondered why microsoft didn't do this or something like it over the decades.
Nowadays (and for a long while) the chances that you have a truly unique problem is low... (although it looks like we're heading for a new dark age where googling relevant error identifiers will yield nothing since nobody actually posted about it on a searchable forum or stack overflow etc. )
It's a trick. Get an axe. (Score:1, Informative)
Fedora has brought a lot of dogshit into Linux. They always push the worst tripe they can lay hands on. If it's not short stroking Pottering's M$ inspired shitware like PulseAudio or Systemd, then it's other garbage like Flatpack, SELinux, Network Manager, Avahi, Polkit, firewalld, Wayland, more bugware from Ted Tso like BTRFS, telemetry for IBM, and lately "AI" whatever the fuck that means. Plus there
No. The kernel panic output does NOT need a colorful candy shell to make Windows Admins feel more comfor
We've come a long way (Score:2)
Beats the old days of a kernel panic just flashing the lights on the keyboard
Don't Panic. (Score:2)
> A proposal within the Fedora Linux community suggests improving the kernel's DRM Panic screen to a more user-friendly, BSOD-style experience..
Ah, those BSOD experiences hanging on lounge room walls like perverted tributes to Blue Man Group..
..as if they could ever be "friendly" enough for the end user crippled with data center parking lot paranoia at 2AM eating a cigarette and smoking a pizza trying to figure out what the fuck they're going to do after the server shit out its third BSOD, and management was way too cheap to buy after hours support.
In the immortal words of Douglas Adams, I suggest you add Don't to that DRM Panic screen. Problem so
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> a more user-friendly, BSOD-style experience
Going out on a limb to say that using the words "more user-friendly" and "death" together isn't the warm and fuzzy they think it is. Just sayin' ...