[Intel-gfx] KMS breaks console

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Tue Feb 3 19:20:23 CET 2009


On Tuesday, February 3, 2009 10:18 am Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:11:54 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On Tuesday, February 3, 2009 9:51 am Tino Keitel wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I just enabled CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS in 2.6.29-rc3 and now the text
> > > console is just black. This happens with the 2.6 branch on a Mac mini
> > > Core Duo with i945GM. Any hints how to solve this?
> >
> > You need to enable the framebuffer console and make sure it's loaded.
>
> It is:
>
> CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

Is your machine still running?  Can you capture kernel logs with drm debugging 
enabled (just pass 'debug=1' when you modprobe drm)?

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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