On 2011-01-21 03:37 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: > Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes: > >> On 2011-01-20 18:39 +0100, Richard Lawrence wrote: >> >>> Thanks for any advice you can offer. I feel pretty clueless about >>> X-related stuff. >> >> The Intel driver in Squeeze requires Kernel Modesetting (KMS)ยน, if X >> uses the Vesa driver instead that means KMS is not active, for whatever >> reason. What are the contents of /proc/fb (if any) and the output of >> "/sbin/lsmod | grep i915" ? > > /proc/fb exists, but is empty.
Just to make sure: you did "cat /proc/fb" and got no output, rather than "ls /proc/fb" and seeing a file with size 0, right? > $ lsmod | grep i915 > i915 222254 0 > drm_kms_helper 18309 1 i915 > drm 112088 2 i915,drm_kms_helper > i2c_algo_bit 3497 1 i915 > i2c_core 12696 5 i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit > button 3598 1 i915 > video 14605 1 i915 So i915 is loaded, but does apparently not work. > So it looks like I am using KMS (right?). No, you're not, otherwise the vesa driver would refuse to load. What does "dmesg | grep -E '(drm|i915)'" print? You should have a file /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf with content "options i915 modeset=1", is it there? Sven -- 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/87ipxi8yz0....@turtle.gmx.de