[arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

[Mikael Eriksson]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:30:29PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> After picking around in the logs, one recurring error seems to be:
> 
> FATAL: Module fbcon not found.

This comes from modprobe.
> 
> What provides the "fbcon" module? I presume it some framebuffer connect 
> module. I have loaded xf86-video-fbdev package, but still no luck. 

fbcon is a kernel module, but it should be compiled into the kernel.
Do you have the latest kernel26?

> 
> Still stumped with intel :-(