[arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

Flavio Costa flavio.cdc at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 03:09:26 EDT 2009


Is KMS enabled?

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:39 AM, David C. Rankin <
drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 09 October 2009 06:24:06 am Jan de Groot wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 12:53 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> > > > After the latest kernel update, I cannot start X for the Arch box I
> > > > have that has an onboard intel graphics card. (Dell 280GX sff) The
> > > > errors are:
> > > >
> > > > 02:31 nirvana:/srv/www/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff> grep "(EE)"
> > > > Xorg.0.log
> > > >        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> > > > (EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)
> > > > (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
> > >
> > > this is not important
> > >
> > > looking at you log file it seems that X did start just fine
> >
> > And it exited fine also, so it's not X related.
> >
>
> I must have posted the Xorg from the wrong arch box. Here is what I'm
> seeing:
>
> (WW) intel(0): No outputs definitely connected, trying again...
> (II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected
> (WW) intel(0): Unable to find initial modes
> (EE) intel(0): No valid modes.
> (II) UnloadModule: "intel"
> (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>         at http://wiki.x.org
>  for help.
> Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional
> information.
>
>
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