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On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:13 -0400, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote |
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> > You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run |
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> > KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable |
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> > YMMV. |
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> Fortunately I've set up lilo to boot up from separate "Production" and |
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> "Experimental" kernels. This allows me to reboot and flee to a sane |
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> config if things go wrong. It appears that nothing is simple. The Intel |
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> driver works great in X, without an xorg.conf. However, it insists on |
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> running framebuffer in text console mode. I *CANNOT* turn off framebuffer. |
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> Passing parameters to lilo via... |
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> append = "noexec=on noexec32=on nofb" |
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> doesn't help. In "make menuconfig" graphics/console, I see |
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> -*- Framebuffer Console support |
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> there is no box to uncheck. Could it be related to my /etc/make.conf |
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> VIDEO_CARDS="intel vga" |
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> Would changing that to VIDEO_CARDS="intel" (and re-emerging xorg) help? |
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KMS drivers and framebuffer console drivers are different and AFAIK |
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mutually exclusive. The boot parameter to disable KMS would be, e.g., |
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i915.modeset=0 |
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