From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N0ntT-0006I4-Oe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:59:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03EBAE0870; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D873FE0870 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:59:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB1AB5929 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:59:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:59:13 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 2CZCYu4QpnHoqEO54RTGtoGKU6X2KO58K/x6i+3EGMki 1256180353 Received: from [192.168.31.12] (cpe-069-134-183-088.nc.res.rr.com [69.134.183.88]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 39A556CFC8 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:59:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20091022021304.GA4806@waltdnes.org> References: <20091021005506.GB4883@waltdnes.org> <1256088606.489979.149.camel@centar> <20091021042908.GA22258@waltdnes.org> <1256120206.1426320.2.camel@centar> <20091021220100.GA18052@waltdnes.org> <1256165750.1810069.3.camel@centar> <20091022021304.GA4806@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:59:12 -0400 Message-ID: <1256180352.2082695.3.camel@centar> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1a1ec990-a15d-4069-9cd1-05f5f7d0705d X-Archives-Hash: 097aa1f7c12107f386dfad1485e1dd04 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