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. -- Ben Hutchings The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. - Robert Coveyou
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