Bug#426714: intelfb refuses mode switching

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:57:22AM +0100, Olaf Zaplinski wrote:
> Hello Moritz,
>
> I tried 2.6.24 and 2.6.26-bpo on both machines. On both machines intelfb  
> now refuses to load with the message "cannot acquire agp".
>
> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules contains:
>
> agp
> intel_agp
> intelfb mode=1024x768-16@60
>
> I added the agp module, but I do not know exactly if I need that.

Could you send the output of "lsmod"? It might be that another framebuffer
driver blocks (such as vesafb) is blocking the agp_backend_acquire()
call.

Cheers,
        Moritz