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

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Le Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:46:36 -0500
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> a écrit:

> 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
> 
> 

this error about fbcon module not found can be ignored, fbcon seems to be
builtin in the kernel and not as a module, hence "module not found". See
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79362