The fbcon driver is built-in to my kernel, which it seems was not the case for your issue. I have looked through the vesafb and uvesafb documentation from the kernel, but it is not clear to me how I would use this to configure my framebuffer. What I do now is pass vga=773 as a kernel arg in grub, which along with "nomodesetting" gets me a usable console, but I can not start X with that configuration, even disregarding my other X issues. <div class="gmail_quote"> 2010/3/17 Andre Müller <<a href="mailto:andremuellerster@gmail.com">andremuellerster@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On 03/17/10 17:44, Scott Silverman wrote: > I have an IBM Thinkpad X30 with the Intel Corporation 82830 CGC [Chipset > Graphics Controller] (rev 04). > > I am trying to install X with Arch Linux (kernel 2.6.32). I have the > xf86-video-intel v2.10.0-1. > > First, without X installed/running, if I boot the machine normally I get > nothing but a blank screen. Same if I set "i915.modeset=1". Alternatively, > if i use the "nomodesetting" kernel argument I can properly boot and use the > console. > > Output of dmesg when booted with i915.modeset=1: > <a href="http://paste.pocoo.org/show/190811/" target="_blank">http://paste.pocoo.org/show/190811/</a> > > Xorg.0.log when started (via ssh) with i915.modeset=1: > <a href="http://paste.pocoo.org/show/190807/" target="_blank">http://paste.pocoo.org/show/190807/</a> > > > How can I configure my kernel/xorg so that I can boot and see my console, > and also have the ability to start X? > </div></div>It may be the problem I once had as well... You need to make shure the framebuffer is enabled and loaded as well (that needs the framebuffer config option but do NOT select any of the framebuffers). The grory details are in <a href="http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22674" target="_blank">http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22674</a> and somewhere on this ML. Best Andre > > > > _______________________________________________ > Intel-gfx mailing list > <a href="mailto:Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org">Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx</a> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/" target="_blank">http://enigmail.mozdev.org/</a> iEYEARECAAYFAkuhF9kACgkQhYOgL/M0VS2DBQCeNhO3meWU7s2PwVm0vAlnTgLh tI8AnRRusmYC9d0xDai3OIFkjhnnUIYb =ZnjD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </blockquote></div>