On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:45:55 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:56:55 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:25:55 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > > > >> On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote: > >> > >> > Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from > >> > kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X. > >> > >> You need to set CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y in your kernel configuration. > >> See the recent bug reports on the xserver-xorg-video-intel package. > > > > Right you are, as usual. We have this: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606288 > > > > So I fixed that, and now I seemed to be worse off than before - the > > system seemed to just hang early on in the boot process with a blank > > screen. > > (...) > > By reading your xorg log error, I see two problems here: Thanks for the help (as always!), but you may be confusing two different problems. The X log is from my initial problem, where the system comes up fine, but X won't start. Sven showed me that I need to enable KMS, and now X works fine. The current problem is with the console (which used to work fine!) - the screen goes (and stays) black, shortly after the beginning of the boot process, although, as I've explained, I can actually get a working system by waiting for the completion of the boot and then blindly typing 'startx', which gets me to a perfectly normal X session. > 1/ Intel driver is failing (not normal but users are accustomed to this) Accustomed?! > 2/ VESA driver (the natural fallback alternative when "intel" driver > fails) cannot be loaded: > > *** > (II) LoadModule: "vesa" > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vesa > (II) UnloadModule: "vesa" > (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) > *** > > Users with an Intel VGA card should always have the "vesa" driver > available and ready to be used, just in case, because such cards do not > have another alternative to use (while ati or nvidia chipsets can play > with 3/4 different set of drivers, Intel options are very limited in this > matter) :-/ A good suggestion - 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 debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101220155042.81e004fb.cele...@gmail.com
