Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-07-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 30.06.2010 09:09, schrieb Andrea Conti: 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is started. KMS provides its own framebuffer console driver -- disable any other framebuffer drivers such as (u)vesafb and enable FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY under

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-30 Thread Andrea Conti
1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is started. KMS provides its own framebuffer console driver -- disable any other framebuffer drivers such as (u)vesafb and enable FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY under drivers/graphics support/console display driver support.

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:47:42PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is started. While I know my system long enough to recognize common boot errors by watching the disk and peripheral device activity, I wouldn't like to make a

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 29.06.2010 13:48, schrieb Willie Wong: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:47:42PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is started. While I know my system long enough to recognize common boot errors by watching the disk and peripheral device

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:49:38PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: What, you mean after going blank? Not that I would have noticed. If you mean after the xserver crash, see three sentences below ;) Oh, my bad. So I assumed that you also checked the kernel logs then. Are you sure there's no kernel

[gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I ran into a massive problem when I tried to update to xorg-server-1.8: When I tried to start it, the x-server didn't come up and wrote this error: (EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected. So I activated modesetting by default in the kernel and tried it again. Now I have