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Re: "No devices found" in X



On 2010-12-20 16:45 +0100, Camaleón wrote:

> Users with an Intel VGA card should always have the "vesa" driver 
> available and ready to be used, just in case, because such cards do not 
> have another alternative to use (while ati or nvidia chipsets can play 
> with 3/4 different set of drivers, Intel options are very limited in this 
> matter) :-/

The vesa driver won't work with Kernel Mode Setting (which is mandatory
for current Intel driver versions), the fbdev driver is a better
fallback for KMS-enabled systems.  Of course it does not hurt to have
both vesa and fbdev installed.

Sven


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