On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:38:14 -0600 Leonid Isaev wrote: > Disabling cap_sys_rawio renders > X unusable with intel drivers (it fails to start with an I/O error).
Depends on the driver, newer ati may have a better KMS method than framebuffer but adding vga=ask to the kernel bootline and using xf86-video-fbdev driver works for older cards.
