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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability
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Am 30.06.2010 09:09, schrieb Andrea Conti:
>> 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is
>> started.
>=20
> KMS provides its own framebuffer console driver -- disable any other
> framebuffer drivers such as (u)vesafb and enable
> FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY under drivers/graphics
> support/console display driver support. Also make sure you remove any
> vga=3D or video=3D options from the kernel commandline in your bootload=
er
> configuration.
[...]
> BTW, everything KMS-related should be compiled in rather than built as =
a
> module.

Thanks! I had to enable the option you mentioned and change everything
framebuffer related from module to compiled-in. Now the console works
like a charm.

Then I had to remove my xorg.conf and it magically solved the X-Server
instability (which was caused by a segfault of the intel driver, btw.).


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