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From: maxim wexler <blissfix@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] more on the mysterious console blanking
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:46:59
Message-Id: 546400.96544.qm@web31713.mail.mud.yahoo.com
1 > Stupid questions but... have you tried booting a
2 > Gentoo livecd and see if you still have issues?
3
4 No issues w/ livecd.
5
6 > You sure the FB modules don't get loaded
7 > automagically? What about passing vga=normal (or
8 > other
9 > options) to the kernel command line?
10
11 Wow! A whole whack of them got loaded: cfbcopyarea,
12 cfbimgblt, cfbfillrect, fb, aty128fb, intel_agp,
13 agpgart. And under kernel drivers a lot more that
14 didn't load: macmodes, bitblit, softcursor etc. How
15 the heck did they get there? Macmodes? I didn't order
16 any macmodes.
17
18 So, went ahead and rmmod'd them except for the last
19 two:
20
21 aty128fb 17284 0
22 fb 30440 1 aty128fb
23 cfbcopyarea 3616 1 aty128fb
24 cfbimgblt 2688 1 aty128fb
25 cfbfillrect 3616 1 aty128fb
26 3c59x 37864 0
27 uhci_hcd 19848 0
28 usbcore 109956 2 uhci_hcd
29 intel_agp 20220 1
30 agpgart 25136 1 intel_agp
31 localhost ~ # rmmod aty128fb
32 localhost ~ # rmmod fb
33 localhost ~ # rmmod cfbcopyarea
34 localhost ~ # rmmod cfbimgblt
35 localhost ~ # rmmod cfbfillrect
36 localhost ~ # rmmod intel_agp
37 ERROR: Module intel_agp is in use
38 localhost ~ # rmmod agpgart
39 ERROR: Module agpgart is in use by intel_agp
40 localhost ~ #
41
42 But it didn't help. Waaaah!
43
44 -mw
45
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