On Mar 02 10:08:38, n...@syndicat.com wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 2. März 2017, 09:38:13 CET schrieben Sie:
> > This is 7.0.2/i386 on an old HP Compaq d530 (dmesg below).
> >
> > The machine boots and seems to work just fine,
> > except if the monitor is not connected - in that case,
> > the boot sequence ends like this
> > (lame jpeg, cereal not set up yet, sorry):
> >
> > http://stare.cz/dmesg/hp-compaq-d530.201610210724Z.jpg
> >
> > That's where a successful boot continues with
> >
> > intelfb0 at i915drmkms0
> > i915drmkms0: info: registered panic notifier
> > intelfb0: framebuffer at 0xdb7fc000, size 1920x1080, depth 32, stride 7680
>
> just a small shot in the dark:
> ...may be this (disabling i915* at boot) helps you:
> http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?p=59007
Instead of disabling i915, I disabled just the i915drmkms
with the following line added to /boot.cfg:
userconf=disable i915drmkms
Now it boots without a monitor attached - thank you.
> but if you rely on the i915 i darkly remember that there was / are older
> versions of the i915 (X11) driver within pkgsrc or so which may help
X still works (i.e. startx gets me into X), although
the resolution used is not the perfect match that the drmkms did.
> (depending from what you really need on that machine).
What I really need is to ssh remotely and write C programs,
so X is not really a concern. I just need the machine to boot headless.
Thanks again,
Jan
