On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 23:47 +0000, Philip wrote:
> Can anyone explain to me why xorg video fbdev works if the
> squeeze-backports kernel is used, but not if the vanilla squeeze kernel
> is used?
No idea.
> My understanding is that this the the vesafb module in the kernel.
>
> I looked for it in the kernel source config (make menuconfig) but I
> can't find this vesafb. Maybe I'm looking for the wrong thing.
The symbol name is FB_VESA.
> I had to disable the xorg intel video driver on my mothers Dell 2400 as
> it was crashing. With the backports kernel it then works with fbdev,
> but with the vanilla squeeze kernel this totally disables xorg.
The Xorg 'intel' video driver works with the 'i915' driver in the
kernel.
Ben.
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