Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:13 -0400, waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote
> 
> > You may not have do that.  All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run
> > KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all.  But since you're running stable
> > YMMV.
> 
>   Fortunately I've set up lilo to boot up from separate "Production" and
> "Experimental" kernels.  This allows me to reboot and flee to a sane
> config if things go wrong.  It appears that nothing is simple.  The Intel
> driver works great in X, without an xorg.conf.  However, it insists on
> running framebuffer in text console mode.  I *CANNOT* turn off framebuffer.
> Passing parameters to lilo via...
> 
> append = "noexec=on noexec32=on nofb"
> 
> doesn't help.  In "make menuconfig" graphics/console, I see
> 
> -*- Framebuffer Console support
> 
> there is no box to uncheck.  Could it be related to my /etc/make.conf
> 
> VIDEO_CARDS="intel vga"
> 
>   Would changing that to VIDEO_CARDS="intel" (and re-emerging xorg) help?
> 

KMS drivers and framebuffer console drivers are different and AFAIK
mutually exclusive.  The boot parameter to disable KMS would be, e.g.,
i915.modeset=0