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

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On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:54 AM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> 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....
>
> --
If fbcon is built-in to the kernel then it wouldn't be found as a module.