Re: "No devices found" in X
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:45:55 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:56:55 -0500, Celejar wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:25:55 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> >> On 2010-12-19 20:56 +0100, Celejar wrote:
> >>
> >> > Running uptodate Sid. I usually run self-compiled kernels (from
> >> > kernel.org git mainline repo) with standard Debian Sid X.
> >>
> >> You need to set CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y in your kernel configuration.
> >> See the recent bug reports on the xserver-xorg-video-intel package.
> >
> > Right you are, as usual. We have this:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606288
> >
> > So I fixed that, and now I seemed to be worse off than before - the
> > system seemed to just hang early on in the boot process with a blank
> > screen.
>
> (...)
>
> By reading your xorg log error, I see two problems here:
Thanks for the help (as always!), but you may be confusing two
different problems. The X log is from my initial problem, where the
system comes up fine, but X won't start. Sven showed me that I need to
enable KMS, and now X works fine. The current problem is with the
console (which used to work fine!) - the screen goes (and stays) black,
shortly after the beginning of the boot process, although, as I've
explained, I can actually get a working system by waiting for the
completion of the boot and then blindly typing 'startx', which gets me
to a perfectly normal X session.
> 1/ Intel driver is failing (not normal but users are accustomed to this)
Accustomed?!
> 2/ VESA driver (the natural fallback alternative when "intel" driver
> fails) cannot be loaded:
>
> ***
> (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vesa
> (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
> (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
> ***
>
> 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) :-/
A good suggestion - thanks.
Celejar
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