Intel Pineview video card & unwanted framebuffer

Venator85 · 2010-01-15 15:26:35

Hi, I just bought an Intel D510MO motherboard with the new Atom D510, the NM10 chipset and the Pineview integrated video card. Everything works well, but on boot the framebuffer is automatically activated just after disks have been checked, although I didn't add a 'vga=XXX' option in GRUB's menu.lst.
How can I disable this and go back with no framebuffer at all? Is this related with KMS?
Thanks

I attach here some useful infos:
lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Pineview DMI Bridge (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Tigerpoint LPC Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

/boot/grub/menu.lst

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/sda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#  for more details and different resolutions see
#  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution 

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/f01db0ed-96b5-4f45-a213-c3cf0e416edd ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/f01db0ed-96b5-4f45-a213-c3cf0e416edd ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

# (2) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1

Installed packages

 $ pacman -Qs xorg
local/xf86-input-evdev 2.3.2-1 (xorg-input-drivers)
    X.org evdev input driver
local/xf86-video-intel 2.9.1-1 (xorg-video-drivers)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
local/xorg-apps 7.5-2
    Various X.Org applications
local/xorg-docs 1.5-1 (xorg)
    X.org documentations
local/xorg-font-utils 7.5-2
    X.Org font utilities
local/xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.2-1
    X.org font alias files
local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.3-1
    X.org font encoding files
local/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-4
    X.org misc fonts
local/xorg-res-utils 1.0.3-3 (xorg)
    X.Org X11 resource utilities
local/xorg-server 1.7.3.902-1 (xorg)
    X.Org X servers
local/xorg-server-utils 7.5-3 (xorg)
    X.Org utilities required by xorg-server
local/xorg-twm 1.0.4-3 (xorg)
    Tab Window Manager for the X Window System
local/xorg-utils 7.5-1 (xorg)
    Collection of client utilities used to query the X server
local/xorg-xauth 1.0.4-1
    X.Org authorization settings program
local/xorg-xinit 1.2.0-1 (xorg)
    X.Org initialisation program
local/xorg-xkb-utils 7.5-2
    X.org keyboard utilities
local/xterm 250-1 (xorg)
    X Terminal Emulator

$ pacman -Qs grub
local/grub 0.97-16 (base)
    A GNU multiboot boot loader

$ pacman -Qs kernel26
local/kernel26 2.6.32.3-1 (base)
    The Linux Kernel and modules
local/kernel26-firmware 2.6.32.3-1 (base)
    The included firmware files of the Linux Kernel

Cdh · 2010-01-15 15:39:53

I guess KMS is standard now.
Create some .conf (e.g. modprobe.conf) in /etc/modprobe.d/ and write

options i915 modeset=0

Assuming that Pinetrail is i915. There probably is also a kernel boot command you could find with google.

Any particular reason why you want to disable it?

Arch Linux

#1 2010-01-15 15:26:35

Intel Pineview video card & unwanted framebuffer

#2 2010-01-15 15:39:53

Re: Intel Pineview video card & unwanted framebuffer

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