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

[Guus Snijders]

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