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paulbarbee

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Registered: 2010-08-20

Posts: 49

modprobe i915 error [SOLVED]

Today when I booted my Asus N550J Arch would not load X11. I have a dual video card setup, an onboard Intel card on the processor and a Nvidia 850M. I tried to make sure the Intel card was being detected and entered 

sudo modprode i915

into the console. It returns

modprobe: ERROR: Error running install command for i915
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'i915': Operation not permitted

I got X11 to start by installing the vesa driver, but it will not use the Intel driver.

Thank you for any answers!

Last edited by paulbarbee (2016-01-09 02:48:41)

Simooon

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Registered: 2015-12-30

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Re: modprobe i915 error [SOLVED]

A failure of a Kernel Module should produce some Kernel message.
Maybe

dmesg | grep i915

should provide some useful informations.

paulbarbee

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Registered: 2010-08-20

Posts: 49

Re: modprobe i915 error [SOLVED]

Thank you! I really should have thought of dmesg myself.

Doing that yielded a line about "failed to add i915 component master" I managed to find the 2nd post on https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=187542 which cleared that issue up.

Now

dmesg | grep i915

yields

dmesg | grep i915
[    0.000000] Command line: initrd=\initramfs-linux.img root=/dev/sda6    rw nomodeset i915.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=0
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: initrd=\initramfs-linux.img root=/dev/sda6    rw nomodeset i915.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=0

I I tried removing the kernel parameters and that just yields a new command line.

One thing I noticed before this started was that the kernel updated and also an Nvidia package.

Last edited by paulbarbee (2016-01-03 01:16:33)

jasonwryan

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Re: modprobe i915 error [SOLVED]

Which nvidia package?

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paulbarbee

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Registered: 2010-08-20

Posts: 49

Re: modprobe i915 error [SOLVED]

Looking at my installed packages it must have been the main nvidia package, nvidia 358.16-3, which was last updated in the repos on 2015-12-31.

paulbarbee

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Registered: 2010-08-20

Posts: 49

Re: modprobe i915 error [SOLVED]

I've solved this problem. I discovered that /etc/modprobe.d had a blacklist.conf with i915 in it.