Re: Getting FB to work in Console

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:48:02 -0500 (EST)
David J Ring Jr [off-list ref] wrote:

I get these drivers:

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Thanks for the info. As Bruno already guessed you have a mainstream
Intel GPU, the driver for it in under drivers/gpu/. From the log I
can see that it is probed. Try to disable passing "nomodeset" option
on the kernel command line.

Is there a universal driver?

You already got the right one, see below.

[    0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=UUIDË1268f1-4e20-4409-87b1-3d882c14102c ro nomodeset

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[    1.002504] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[    1.002638] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset
[    1.003092] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 32764K stolen memory
[    1.034511] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000

...

[    8.825096] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[    8.827153] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Lenovo EasyCamera (04f2:b090)
[    8.830393] input: Lenovo EasyCamera as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb3/3-3/3-3:1.0/input/input5
[    8.830589] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[    8.830712] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
[    8.872716] pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[    8.872790] pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    8.878968] mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
[    8.879055] [drm] MTRR allocation failed.  Graphics performance may suffer.

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[    8.990393] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[    8.990485] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

The driver is already in the kernel, you have to disable passing
"nomodeset", as Bruno suggested.

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