On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:13 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote > > > You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run > > KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable > > YMMV. > > Fortunately I've set up lilo to boot up from separate "Production" and > "Experimental" kernels. This allows me to reboot and flee to a sane > config if things go wrong. It appears that nothing is simple. The Intel > driver works great in X, without an xorg.conf. However, it insists on > running framebuffer in text console mode. I *CANNOT* turn off framebuffer. > Passing parameters to lilo via... > > append = "noexec=on noexec32=on nofb" > > doesn't help. In "make menuconfig" graphics/console, I see > > -*- Framebuffer Console support > > there is no box to uncheck. Could it be related to my /etc/make.conf > > VIDEO_CARDS="intel vga" > > Would changing that to VIDEO_CARDS="intel" (and re-emerging xorg) help? >
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
