Bug#704690: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: xserver-xorg-video-fbdev says (EE)open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory

2013-04-04 Thread Philip
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-48squeeze1 Severity: normal Unable to start Xorg using fbdev driver with this kernel. The same xorg installation works with the squeeze-backports kernel. The intel driver is also broken on this PC so the fbdev driver is important. I have been unable to

Bug#704690: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: xserver-xorg-video-fbdev says (EE)open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory

2013-04-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 17:57:05 +0100, Philip wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-48squeeze1 Severity: normal Unable to start Xorg using fbdev driver with this kernel. The Xorg fbdev driver requires a fb driver. If you disable i915 kms, that means enabling vesafb or similar...

Bug#704690: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: xserver-xorg-video-fbdev says (EE)open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory

2013-04-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 18:30:08 +0100, Philip wrote: lsmod, xorg and dmesg logs for SQUEEZE-BACKPORTS kernel (this works) [...] (II) FBDEV(0): hardware: inteldrmfb (video memory: 3072kB) That has KMS enabled. Still seems like everything's working as it should, as far as I can tell.

Bug#704690: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: xserver-xorg-video-fbdev says (EE)open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory

2013-04-04 Thread Philip
Exactly, that is my point. The squeeze-backports kernel WORKS. The squeeze kernel linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-48squeeze1 DOES NOT WORK. I am reporting the problem against the standard squeeze kernel. thanks, Philip On 04/04/2013 19:13, Julien Cristau wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at

Bug#704690: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: xserver-xorg-video-fbdev says (EE)open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory

2013-04-04 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 19:33:22 +0100, Philip wrote: Exactly, that is my point. The squeeze-backports kernel WORKS. The squeeze kernel linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-48squeeze1 DOES NOT WORK. The kernel works just fine (or at least you haven't described in what way it does not work). It

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2013-04-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: tag -1 moreinfo Bug #704690 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: xserver-xorg-video-fbdev says (EE)open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory Added tag(s) moreinfo. -- 704690: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704690 Debian Bug Tracking System

Bug#704690: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: xserver-xorg-video-fbdev says (EE)open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory

2013-04-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 05:57:05PM +0100, Philip wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-48squeeze1 Severity: normal Unable to start Xorg using fbdev driver with this kernel. The same xorg installation works with the squeeze-backports kernel. [...] What if you