On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:00:03 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>>>>> Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:23:47 >>>>>> +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: On >>>>>> Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:23:54 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > […] > > >>>> Otherwise, fbcon works pretty much correctly for the case in > >>>> question. As per lsmod, the driver is i915. > > >>> Intel KMS requires fbcon, unless this has changed recently... and > >>> for Intel cards KMS is also mandatory, so I dunno what to suggest > >>> :-) > > >> What do you mean by “mandatory”? I've ran the system without both > >> the i915 module and fbcon, and had no problems with that setup so > >> far. In particular, X works correctly. > > > I remember a problem with intel driver > > The kernel's, or the X.org's one?
He... for intel vga drivers there is no much room for such a difference. I think it were server-xorg-video-intel. > > and fbcon not being loaded that caused X to crash, but maybe this has > > already been corrected. > > To state it explicitly: I haven't tested X with kernel's i915 and > without fbcon — only X without /either/ of i915 and fbcon. > > I hope to check whether the respective kernel modules can be > “blacklisted” via modprobe.conf(5) shortly. > > --cut: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist -- > # This file lists modules which will not be loaded as the result of > # alias expansion, with the purpose of preventing the hotplug subsystem > # to load them. It does not affect autoloading of modules by the > kernel. # This file is provided by the udev package. > --cut: > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist -- Blacklisting kernel modules does not always work as we expect. If the module is required it will be loaded regardless it is blacklisted or not. > (But I still wonder, is this the hotplug subsystem that loads the > modules in question, or is it the kernel?) I'd say is the kernel that calls the hotplug (udev) subsystem which finally loads the module :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.29.16.52...@gmail.com
