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

[David C. Rankin]

On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:37:43 pm Mikael Eriksson wrote:
> 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 :-(
> 

Yep

kernel26-2.6.31.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz


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