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

[David C. Rankin]

On Saturday 17 October 2009 09:20:40 am David C. Rankin wrote:
> 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....
> 

Nope:

==> Building image "default"
==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.31-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -
g /boot/kernel26.img
:: Begin build                                                                                    
ERROR: module 'fbcon' not found                                                                   
<snip>

==> Building image "fallback"                                                                     
==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.31-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -
g /boot/kernel26-fallback.img -S autodetect
:: Begin build                                                                                                           
ERROR: module 'fbcon' not found                                                                                          
<snip>

Back to the drawing board....

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