Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 07:33:56 pm Dario wrote: > > You have to reconfigure the kernel, then recompile it, and finally run > mkinitcpio. Configuring the kernel is not such an hard task (I used to do > it at every update on my previous Slackware box), besides, I think that > you can keep eve

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread Dario
Ciao In data domenica 18 ottobre 2009 00:54:16, David C. Rankin ha scritto: > > Well, I'm not an Arch kernel guru, but I guess you mean adding fbcon to > > the MODULES="" line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf so it would read: [SNIP] > ERROR: module 'fbcon' not found You have to reconfigure the kernel

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:54 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 09:20:40 am David C. Rankin wrote: >> Well, I'm not an Arch kernel guru, but I guess you mean adding fbcon to >>  the  MODULES="" line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf so it would read: >> >> MODULES="fbcon intel_agp i915

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 09:20:40 am David C. Rankin wrote: > Well, I'm not an Arch kernel guru, but I guess you mean adding fbcon to > the MODULES="" line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf so it would read: > > MODULES="fbcon intel_agp i915" > > and then rebuilding with > > mkinitcpio -p kernel26 >

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 03:20:36 pm Guus Snijders wrote: > David C. Rankin schreef: > > On Saturday 17 October 2009 05:53:12 am Dario wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 12:32:49, Dario ha scritto: > >>> Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing >

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread Guus Snijders
David C. Rankin schreef: On Saturday 17 October 2009 05:53:12 am Dario wrote: Hi In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 12:32:49, Dario ha scritto: Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing module that I insisted on having loaded in rc.conf, but the "fatality" was re

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 05:53:12 am Dario wrote: > Hi > > In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 12:32:49, Dario ha scritto: > > Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing > > module that I insisted on having loaded in rc.conf, but the "fatality" > > was related to the attemp

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 05:32:49 am Dario wrote: > In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 06:27:55, David C. Rankin ha scritto: > > pascal, if that is so, why is it listed as the FATAL error? > > Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing module > that I insisted on having lo

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread Dario
Hi In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 12:32:49, Dario ha scritto: > Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing module > that I insisted on having loaded in rc.conf, but the "fatality" was related > to the attempt to load it, and didn't not harm the rest of the boot > sequen

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread Dario
In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 06:27:55, David C. Rankin ha scritto: > pascal, if that is so, why is it listed as the FATAL error? Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing module that I insisted on having loaded in rc.conf, but the "fatality" was related to the attemp

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 16 October 2009 03:45:44 am pascal wrote: > Le Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:46:36 -0500 > > "David C. Rankin" a écrit: > > On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:37:43 pm Mikael Eriksson wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:30:29PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > > > Guys, > > > > > > > > After pic

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-16 Thread pascal
Le Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:46:36 -0500 "David C. Rankin" a écrit: > On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:37:43 pm Mikael Eriksson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:30:29PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > > > After picking around in the logs, one recurring error seems to be: > > > > >

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:37:43 pm Mikael Eriksson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:30:29PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > Guys, > > > > After picking around in the logs, one recurring error seems to be: > > > > FATAL: Module fbcon not found. > > This comes from modprobe. > > > What pr

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-15 Thread Mikael Eriksson
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:30:29PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > After picking around in the logs, one recurring error seems to be: > > FATAL: Module fbcon not found. This comes from modprobe. > > What provides the "fbcon" module? I presume it some framebuffer connect > module. I h

[arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, After picking around in the logs, one recurring error seems to be: FATAL: Module fbcon not found. What provides the "fbcon" module? I presume it some framebuffer connect module. I have loaded xf86-video-fbdev package, but still no luck. Still stumped with intel :-( -- David C. Rankin,