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

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Sat Oct 17 17:56:15 EDT 2009


On Saturday 17 October 2009 03:20:36 pm Guus Snijders wrote:
> 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
> 

Guus,

	Thanks for the tip. I'm still playing with it in between getting kiddos to 
gymnastic meets, honey-doos, etc... I have faith!

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