Bug#426714: intelfb refuses mode switching

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 08:22:51PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> 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.

Has this been fixed in more recent kernels?

Cheers,
        Moritz