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Bug#598312: gdm crashes



reassign 598312 linux-2.6
reassign 596453 linux-2.6
found 596453 2.6.32-21
forcemerge 596453 598312 
thanks

On 2010-09-28 10:41 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:

> Juha Mäkinen <juha.makinen@koti.soon.fi> (28/09/2010):
>> after last update (28 september 2010) gdm crashes.
>> trouble maybe with "intel" driver (I did think that bug was closed?)
>> or xorg configuration. I include Xorg.0.log here:
>> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0
>> (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
>> (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
>> (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
>> (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
>> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.so
>> (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>> 	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 0.0.2
>> 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
>> (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
>> (EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected.
>> (II) UnloadModule: "intel"
>> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>> 
>> Fatal server error:
>> no screens found
>
> You need a KMS-enabled kernel with current intel drivers. UMS is gone,
> for real.

This means that the Debian kernel from squeeze/sid is not suitable
because it has KMS disabled on i845, see #596453.

Sven



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