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

[David C. Rankin]

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....

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