On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:16:42 +0100 Sven Joachim <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2010-12-20 17:42 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:25:02 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > >> The vesa driver won't work with Kernel Mode Setting (which is mandatory > >> for current Intel driver versions), the fbdev driver is a better > >> fallback for KMS-enabled systems. Of course it does not hurt to have > >> both vesa and fbdev installed. > > > > How bad... but "fbdev" also fails: > > > > *** > > (II) LoadModule: "fbdev" > > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev > > (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev" > > (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) > > *** > > Looks like xserver-xorg-video-fbdev is not installed on your system. > Small wonder that it fails then. Correct. As I've said, I don't particularly want to run the framebuffer. > > So, if KMS is now a must for Intel cards, and VESA is not compatible with > > KMS, I hope at least "fbdev" can be used transparently (no user > > intercation needed)... > > Personally I hope to never need vesa or fbdev on Intel systems. I, too, although I certainly know a lot less about all this than you do. > > Hummm, I wouldn't like to have an Intel VGA > > chipset nowadays O:-) > > Why not? My (four years old) laptop has always worked fine, and Intel > chipsets are the only ones where free drivers for very new hardware > exist. I've had intermittent, albeit not all that frequent, problems (GPU hangs - lost data and productivity), even before the KMS rollout: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16262 Thanks, Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
