Re: Another No devices found in X problem

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:12:40 -0800, Steve McCarthy wrote: (...) The vesa driver works fine. I've since removed it and fbdev trying to force the intel choice. Here's the resulting X.log: (...) (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so (II) Module intel: vendor=X.Org Foundation

Re: Another No devices found in X problem

2011-02-27 Thread Steve McCarthy
On Sunday 27 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote: I wonder what is the current status for Sandy Bridge in current Debian releases :-? I've read that Intel X driver 2.14.0 does fully support that chipset (H67) but you seem to be using 2.13.0 and Xorg 1.7.7. Will that combo work? Greetings, Oh, I

Another No devices found in X problem

2011-02-26 Thread Steve McCarthy
Hello, I followed this topic in December when Celejar was having difficulty, but that solution doesn't help me. I recently bought a motherboard w/ H67 chip-set and i5 processor. I managed to purchase it 8 hours before the Intel recall was announced - lucky me. Xorg seems determined to

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:59:17AM EST, Celejar wrote: [..] If we can establish that this was the problem (that it must be built-in, and not built as a module), is this a bug? I suppose that I should at least update the Wiki to warn about this. Not sure if it's relevant, but this vaguely

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:03:34 -0500 Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:59:17AM EST, Celejar wrote: [..] If we can establish that this was the problem (that it must be built-in, and not built as a module), is this a bug? I suppose that I should at least

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 03:30:38PM EST, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:03:34 -0500 Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:59:17AM EST, Celejar wrote: [..] Not sure if it's relevant, but this vaguely reminds me of having had to add my old ATI mach64's

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:29:21 -0500 Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 03:30:38PM EST, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:03:34 -0500 Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:59:17AM EST, Celejar wrote: [..] Not sure if it's

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:39:16 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-21 14:59 +0100, Celejar wrote: Okay, I've just booted into my new kernel with CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y, and everything seems to be working fine! If we can establish that this was the problem (that it

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:12:11 -0500 Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:11:59 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 22:52 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:55 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Is

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-21 14:59 +0100, Celejar wrote: Okay, I've just booted into my new kernel with CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y, and everything seems to be working fine! If we can establish that this was the problem (that it must be built-in, and not built as a module), is this a bug? I would think

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:56:55 -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:25:55 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X. You need to

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 04:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:25:55 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X. You

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 16:45 +0100, Camaleón wrote: Users with an Intel VGA card should always have the vesa driver available and ready to be used, just in case, because such cards do not have another alternative to use (while ati or nvidia chipsets can play with 3/4 different set of drivers, Intel

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:25:02 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-20 16:45 +0100, Camaleón wrote: Users with an Intel VGA card should always have the vesa driver available and ready to be used, just in case, because such cards do not have another alternative to use (while ati or nvidia

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:25:02 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: The vesa driver won't work with Kernel Mode Setting (which is mandatory for current Intel driver versions), the fbdev driver is a better fallback for KMS-enabled systems. Of course it does not

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote: How bad... but fbdev also fails: *** (II) LoadModule: fbdev (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev (II) UnloadModule: fbdev (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0)

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 20 December 2010 18:40:02 Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Why not? :-) Because I'm seeing (one day and another, in this same list and in other Debian lists) that Intel driver is failing (crashing) very often and doesn't seem to provide an

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 18:40 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote: Hummm, I wouldn't like to have an Intel VGA chipset nowadays O:-) Why not? My (four years old) laptop has always worked fine, and Intel chipsets

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:02:33 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Monday 20 December 2010 18:40:02 Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Why not? :-) Because I'm seeing (one day and another, in this same list and in other Debian lists) that Intel driver is

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:25:02 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: The vesa driver won't work with Kernel Mode Setting (which is mandatory for current Intel driver versions), the

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:45:55 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:56:55 -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:25:55 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:02:33 +0100 Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr wrote: ... Well, I don't want to start a war, but I have machines with Intel, nvidia and ati graphic card. Intel one has proved to be the stable one over the past two and a half years. And it was going to be a must for

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:18:25 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 18:40 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote: Hummm, I wouldn't like to have an Intel VGA chipset nowadays O:-)

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 21:55 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:18:25 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: - Black screen when the i915 kernel module loads. This happened even to me some day¹, but the kernel developers are shaking out the KMS bugs, so this should become less of

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:50:42 -0500, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:45:55 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: By reading your xorg log error, I see two problems here: Thanks for the help (as always!), but you may be confusing two different problems. The X log is from my initial problem,

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:15:43 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 04:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:25:55 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:14:12 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 21:55 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:18:25 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: - Black screen when the i915 kernel module loads. This happened even to me some day¹, but the

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:14:09 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:50:42 -0500, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:45:55 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... 1/ Intel driver is failing (not normal but users are accustomed to this) Accustomed?!

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 22:17 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:15:43 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: This may be due to the use of a framebuffer in grub2, or because CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not set in the kernel configuration. For the former, try to disable the framebuffer

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:55 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 22:17 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:15:43 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: This may be due to the use of a framebuffer in grub2, or because CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not set

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-20 22:52 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:55 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Is CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY set? No - should it be? The help says 'if unsure, select n', so I figured it was best left off, since I'm certainly not sure ;)

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-20 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:11:59 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-20 22:52 +0100, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:55 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Is CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY set? No - should it be? The help says 'if unsure,

No devices found in X

2010-12-19 Thread Celejar
Hi, Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X. This has been working fine for years (except, of course, for the occasional, temporary X breakage), but starting recently (presumably after some X upgrade), X bails on

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X. You need to set CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y in your kernel configuration. See the recent bug reports on the xserver-xorg-video-intel

Re: No devices found in X

2010-12-19 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:25:55 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X. You need to set CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y in your