Hey Florian,
> They do show that the uvesafb shepherd service was started, even when > it did not load uvesafb. Maybe the shepherd service should be > renamed. I did check on my recent hardware, the module is not loaded anymore and everything works fine. On my old Intel machine, I guess uvesafb was messing with i915, and as you pointed out, "nomodeset" was required. With your recent patch, uvesafb is not loaded and it works fine out of the box. Thanks a lot for all the effort your are investing into this :) Mathieu