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 1N1C39-0007bx-4B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:46:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86DCBE076E; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76FB8E076E for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:46:49 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArwEACPS4EpFpZJR/2dsb2JhbACBUNhohD8EiCI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,609,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="48043469" Received: from 69-165-146-81.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.165.146.81]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 23 Oct 2009 00:46:48 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:46:46 -0400 From: waltdnes@waltdnes.org Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:46:46 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console Message-ID: <20091023044646.GA26441@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> <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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1256180352.2082695.3.camel@centar> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 4a5d4a4d-6be7-40ec-8585-95b283c3ef9f X-Archives-Hash: ea47bcc3f86c914acac7071a80cbacf7 On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:59:12PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote > 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 I don't want to disable KMS, I want to disable framebuffer, and I simply cannot do so with the i915 driver enabled... period. end of story. It is automatically enable in make menuconfig. The option is "-*-" rather than [*]. I've tried "nofb" in the lilo append line, and manually unsetting all the FB_CONFIG* parameters in .config with vim and rebuilding, but it still comes up in framebuffer mode. I'll have to wait for the next kernel updates, I suppose. I don't want to play with ~x86. -- Walter Dnes