Bug#606348: xserver-xorg-video-intel: X refuses to load this driver with an xorg.conf, without it loads Vesa on my LCD monitor
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:25:41 +0100
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 19:40:25 -0500, Charles wrote:
>
> > This is display_class.conf
> >
> > # This directive blacklists all devices which are members of the
> > display class.
> > # It has the main effect of preventing udev from autoloading the fb drivers.
> >
> > # vendor, device, subsystem_vendor, subsystem_device, class, class, class
> > install pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc03sc*i* /bin/true
> >
> You need to kill this file.
Done, I moved it out of the way
>
> >
> > This is blacklist.conf
> >
> >
> > # This file lists modules which will not be
> > loaded as the result of
> > # alias expansion, with the purpose of preventing the hotplug subsystem
> > # to load them. It does not affect autoloading of modules by the kernel.
> > # This file is provided by the udev package.
> >
> > # This directive blacklists all devices which are members of the display class.
> > # It has the main effect of preventing udev from autoloading the fb drivers.
> > # vendor, device, subsystem_vendor, subsystem_device, class, class, class
> > install pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc03sc*i* /bin/true
> >
> And this line.
Done.
Rebooted with my old xorg.conf file and things are back to normal.
Which begs the questions what was that display_class.conf file doing
there inthe first place, and that "install pci:v..etc etc" line in
blacklist.conf?
At any rate thanks to Julien, (and Sven) and a big thumbs up. I
dunno what the problem was...but it's gone.
--
Cheers
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