On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:01:23 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:33:46PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> (08/12/2010): > > > Doesn't look like it's actually attached? > > Oops. Attached. > > > > Make sure you set > > > CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y. > > I don't have that set, but the standard Debian 2.6.36 and 2.6.32 kernels > don't seem to have it set either. As far as I know, that just sets the > *default* for i915.modeset; xserver-xorg-video-intel installs > /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf which sets "options i915 modeset=1", so > that should supercede CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS, shouldn't it? > CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y also adds module aliases to the driver so it gets loaded automatically by udev on boot. The debian kernels are patched to have these aliases even without KMS=y. The X driver used to call 'modprobe i915' itself, which was hiding that issue, but the last version changed to check for KMS before that.
> > That, plus since you have no xorg.conf, it should fall back to vesa > > (or fbdev? I didn't check all combinations) if those are installed. > > It'd be nice if you could confirm this point while rebuilding with the > > option Julien mentioned. :) > > It certainly tried to fall back to vesa, but I don't have that installed > since (normally) the intel driver handles my hardware just fine. :) > Right. Cheers, Julien
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