[Bug 61671] i915 silently fails to load on generation >= 6 gpus with nomodeset

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61671

Sylvia Else <sylviabz1 at cryogenic.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |---

--- Comment #2 from Sylvia Else <sylviabz1 at cryogenic.net> ---
The failure in expectation is that the driver will run, but not modeset, not
that the driver will just bail out without comment.

It's not as if most people actually ever write a kernel command line. The
command line is supplied to them as part of the software they've installed.
There may be a valid reason for i915 not loading if nomodeset is specified, but
a simple one line message stating the reason would give people a chance to seek
help as to the real problem, rather than obscure things like

[2.317467] [drm:drm_pci_agp_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module.
[2.317529] DRM: Fill_in_dev failed.

which is what they get now.

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