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Bug#528570: With i855GM, xserver-xorg-video-intel tries to load i810 module



OoO En cette  fin de matinée radieuse du jeudi 14  mai 2009, vers 11:31,
Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> disait :

> Trying and failing to load i810 is not a problem. It happens here as
> well but things work fine.

> The problem could be that it tries fbdev and this one doesn't fail
> properly, and but it doesn't work either. On my laptop, I get
>   (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
> and then the intel driver is loaded. So it looks like fbdev properly
> fails to load here, causing intel to be tried and it works.

> Do you have a framebuffer kernel driver running? Any /dev/fb* exists?
> What's in /proc/fb? Can you try without framebuffer kernel drivers?

/dev/fb0 exists
/proc/fb contains
0 VESA VGA

Disabling  framebuffer  in  kernel   solves  the  problem.  However,  if
possible, it would be better to check for intel driver before fb.
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