Hi Julien, On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:27:13AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 20:16:51 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > > > And KMS needs i915 to be loaded from initramfs, so it may to be too > > > early to read /etc/modprobe.d/i915 > > > > > > Does it change anything if you don't do the above ? > > When I comment out the line in /etc/modprobe.d/i915, X starts normally. > > And I have > > > > r...@cassiopeia:~# cat /sys/module/i915/parameters/modeset > > 1 > > > > Both makes me think that /etc/modprobe.d/i915 is early enough, isn't it? > > > I think you need the module loaded before X starts, or > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=52367847087206b92f18c40d356d36ab9ee89d39 I tried booting into single user mode
# modprobe i915 modeset=1 # This made my tty use a framebuffer # logout The result was the same: Blank screen, Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't work, not even Caps-Lock. Backtrace: #0 0xb7f5e424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7ce5c69 in ioctl () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7ae4c5d in drmIoctl () from /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 #3 0xb7ae5062 in drmCommandNone () from /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 #4 0xb7a77a4f in I830BlockHandler (i=0, blockData=0x0, pTimeout=0xbfa7bc28, pReadmask=0x81f08c0) at ../../src/i830_driver.c:2659 #5 0x0817809b in AnimCurScreenBlockHandler (screenNum=0, blockData=0x0, pTimeout=0xbfa7bc28, pReadmask=0x81f08c0) at ../../render/animcur.c:222 #6 0x08142828 in compBlockHandler (i=0, blockData=0x0, pTimeout=0xbfa7bc28, pReadmask=0x81f08c0) at ../../composite/compinit.c:158 #7 0x080902d8 in BlockHandler (pTimeout=0xbfa7bc28, pReadmask=0x81f08c0) at ../../dix/dixutils.c:384 #8 0x0812fcf4 in WaitForSomething (pClientsReady=0x9821400) at ../../os/WaitFor.c:215 #9 0x0808c53e in Dispatch () at ../../dix/dispatch.c:367 #10 0x080719dd in main (argc=9, argv=0xbfa7bd74, envp=Cannot access memory at address 0x6460 ) at ../../dix/main.c:397 (I think it's the same, but I didn't check.) But I noticed: # grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (EE) intel(0): Failed to set tiling on front buffer: rejected by kernel Is that a problem? Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org