On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Bruce Dubbs<[email protected]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Bruce Dubbs<[email protected]> wrote: >>> I've been working on X today and have all the applicable packages installed. >>> The problem is that I can't get it to start properly. >>> >>> I keep getting the message: >>> >>> FATAL: Module fbcon not found >>> >>> Below are excerpts of files that may have a bearing, but I can't get the >>> system >>> to come up properly. Note that there are no errors indicated in >>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log. >> >> What version of xf86-video-intel are you running? > > xf86-video-intel-2.8.0. I notice that there is a 2.8.1 driver now, but that > doesn't seem affect loading. > > +New fixes in 2.8.1 compared to 2.8.0 > +------------------------------------ > +* Allow DRM mode setting to include transformations (also requires a > + fix in the X server---available in xserver 1.6.3) > + > +* Align tiled pixmap height so we don't address beyond the end of our > + buffers. > > >> Can you show the whole Xorg.log? > > Not any more. I got fed up an put in an old Nvida card I had. That worked > fine > with the nv driver. I even put in the nvidia driver and got that to work > with a > little tweaking. > >> With kernel mode setting, you want fbcon built into >> the kernel (otherwise you won't get a console by default), but it has >> a stupid interaction with xf86-video-intel. I just ran into this the >> other day, and I think seeing the log will jog my memory. If you just >> want to workaround this, boot with i915.modeset=0 (I think, it might >> be nomodeset=0 instead). > > Looking at the code, I see src/i830_driver.c: > > /* Be nice to the user and load fbcon too */ > if (!ret) > (void) xf86LoadKernelModule("fbcon"); > > I suppose if you need me to, I can throw some debug statements into the code > and > go back to the built in video controller to try to debug the problem. > > Is this a kernel driver issue or an xorg driver issue?
Yeah, that's the one. If I recall, this FATAL is not really the one bringing down X. Ah, now I remember. The "FATAL: Module fbcon not found" is actually coming from modprobe since you have fbcon built in and it can't find a loadable fbcon module. It's not actually fatal to X since the module is loaded (and X wouldn't need it anyway). There's gotta be a different error there, so I think we'd need to look at the X log. This is an Intel G45 or something? What type of monitor and connection are you driving? If I had to take a guess, I would say that KMS is failing for you. They're still working some of the bugs out to get KMS up to the standard of the userspace modesetting from xf86-video-intel. In that case, the options are to boot with i915.modeset=0 or try newer kernels to see if things are fixed. Of course, whether you want to pursue or not is up to you since you've got working nvidia graphics. :) -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
