On Saturday 17 October 2009 03:20:36 pm Guus Snijders wrote:
David C. Rankin schreef:
On Saturday 17 October 2009 05:53:12 am Dario wrote:
Hi
In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 12:32:49, Dario ha scritto:
Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing module that I insisted on having loaded in rc.conf, but the "fatality" was related to the attempt to load it, and didn't not harm the rest of the boot sequence. I agree that indeed it's the wrong name.
But you are right: in the strace, looking at the syntax, the error is not coming from X, but from the kernel, and X reads the fatality as a bad thing, I suppose, so this could be a X server bug. Maybe you can recompile the kernel with fbcon as a module and see what happens...
Well, I'm not an Arch kernel guru, but I guess you mean adding fbcon to the MODULES="" line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf so it would read:
MODULES="fbcon intel_agp i915"
and then rebuilding with
mkinitcpio -p kernel26
I'll give it a shot and report back....
David, i'm really impressed with your persistence in this. Way to go! On the other hand, if the fbcon module is built-in now, than adding it MODULES probably won't change anything as it isn't compiled as module.
I think it is about this line in the kernel .config: CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
But i'm not sure. Anyone?
mvg, Guus
Guus, Thanks for the tip. I'm still playing with it in between getting kiddos to gymnastic meets, honey-doos, etc... I have faith! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com