[Intel-gfx] Intel/Pineview graphics won't load 1024x600 resolution in X11

[Adam Jackson]

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 14:58 -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:

> First:  I _really_ appreciate your help!
> 
> I added 8086A010, 8086A011, and 8086A012 to a file 
> /usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci/intel.icv, and then I get:
> 
>     (EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)
>     (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
>     (EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected
>     (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
> 
> So, I went back to /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf and set 'modeset=1'
> (was 0).  When I do that, the Console initializes and uses a
> framebuffer (which looks nice)... but when X11 starts is garbles the
> screen and makes the virtual terminals unusable (like when vsync or
> hsync is wrong).  I think the error messages are the same, too.
> 
> This suggests that I'm missing a kernel module, right?  What would
> it's name look like?

No, that suggests that you have a KMS driver, just that it's buggy.
It'd be called i915.ko.

At this point you probably need to consider it a Debian kernel bug.  I'd
try a 2.6.34 build, if they have any.

- ajax
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