Anton Aylward wrote:
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Now I have a
$ sudo /sbin/lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
and that uses the "intel" driver.
When your X server tries loading the "intel" driver for your GPU it fails, somehow and unloads.
(II) UnloadModule: "intel"
Thanks Anton, that's how I read that too. There doesn't seem to be any other indication of _why_ though.
That may be becuase you have one or more "Option" settings that it barfs on, but in this case I think you are wrong to use the "intel" driver.
AFAICT, there are no options specific to the driver. The only way I've managed to get this to work is to use the default xorg.conf.install.
There is a 915 driver:
find /lib -name '*915*' /lib/modules/4.5.0-3.g8ec3d36-default/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915 /lib/modules/4.5.0-3.g8ec3d36-default/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko /lib/firmware/i915 /lib/firmware/LICENSE.i915
And that firmware.
Have you tried using that?
Yep, I went all the way to KOTD 4.5 (last week).
Yes there are a lot of bugs listed for the 915 driver, but that's the case, I see, for just about every other one :-( According the bug list the driver I'm using shouldn't work with my hardware.
I've noticed that the installers (and Knoppix) seem to be able to probe and find out which driver to use quite effectively. Maybe see what they leave as 'debris files".
Well, without xorg.conf.install I had to use "nomodeset" to get anywhere. After that I ended up using xorg.conf.install which gives me a working system, just without sufficient video performance.
A word of warning. The "Option" setting is a some kind of black art; yes there's a lot of how it should work on the Web, but it's correctness and viability seems to vary with the iteration of the GPU chip on the board. This is an area where experimentation & hand tuning comes into play.
No problem, I'm already way into that. :-)
Usually the driver _should_ work without any "Option" setting, but I have a memory of a case where it didn't. What revision of X that was I can't recall.
I guess "Options" is a directive that goes into e.g. xorg.d/20-intel.conf ?
Whether its easier to debug a single "xorg.conf" file or the separate "50-" files us debatable. Personally I prefer the latter.
However I do agree with Felix that stripping the files back to the very basics *AND* making sure you have them all is a necessary. Putting them all in one file is an alternative debug move.
But do you actually have all those "50-" files?
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