Re: "No devices found" in X

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:55 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx> wrote:

On 2010-12-20 22:17 +0100, Celejar wrote:

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:15:43 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx> wrote:
This may be due to the use of a framebuffer in grub2, or because
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not set in the kernel configuration. For
the former, try to disable the framebuffer and use text mode (please
consult the grub documentation how to do that, I'm not using grub2
myself yet).

Not using Grub2, and in any event, I'm pretty sure that we're well out
of grub when the problem begins.

Okay, so you're probably in text mode before i915 loads, which is good.

You need CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y. See also the Debian Wiki:
http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting.

CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is set to 'module'. Does it really need to
be built in?

Don't think so, unless vesafb (CONFIG_FB_VESA) is also built into the
kernel (vesafb cannot be built as a module).

I suppose it can't hurt to check, unless you have any
other ideas.

Is CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY set?

No - should it be? The help says 'if unsure, select n', so I figured
it was best left off, since I'm certainly not sure ;)

Celejar
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