On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:47:24PM -0300, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 04:51:53PM +0300, Rogut??s Sparnuotos wrote:
Jorge Arellano Cid (2011-08-26 09:34):
I can't get this Debian to go VESA. Hints welcomed.
Perhaps make sure that you have the 'xserver-xorg-video-vesa' package
It is there.
and try booting with the 'i915.modeset=0' kernel parameter?
It made no difference :-P
But probably it is more stubborn than that, e.g. only the i915 driver knows how to initialize enough video RAM for the native resolution.
I have a "Tiny Core" linux live CD that works without the intel driver (AFAICT). No native resolution though.
In such a case running `X -depth 8` could work, but delving any deeper is probably not worth the trouble.
This gave me an idea, and guess what, if I run with the same kernel/intel-driver that crashes but with a different resolution (1024x768) there's no crash.
Now, if VESA can't do the native resolution, I don't know how to get closer to a proof of a bug in the i915 driver.
Maybe with http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtrace/ you can determine the problematic X11 request. I can't reproduce the crash btw. Cheers, Johannes