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Hi, |
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I've been working on trying to get this new machine to run X. So |
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far no luck but I'm learning so it's interesting. |
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My quick question goes like this - if I boot with no drivers I get |
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a VGA console. If I modprobe a frame buffer driver at boot time then I |
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get a nice looking but slow frame buffer console. All good so far. |
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However my graphics adapter is supposed to use the i915 driver and |
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when I modprobe that - either in auto-load or at the command like |
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after logging in - my screen goes 'black'. I'm wondering what I do - |
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other than look at what's in dmesg - to figure out what state the |
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machine is in. Is the screen turned off? Is the driver running and |
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putting out 'black'? |
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What do I look at to understand what the driver is doing and what |
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the system thinks is the state of the screen before I start X? |
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It turns out there are flags you can turn on to debug drm that show |
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me the system is finding my monitors and lots of mode line info, but |
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then the screen is black so it seems like somethings not right. Are |
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there any tools to query this sort of situation? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |