Problem after switching graphic card driver

athelas · 2012-12-14 08:55:19

Hello,

I switched my graphic card driver from xf86-video-intel to vesa, because I had a problem with a few applications. After switching to vesa everything works, but I get an error message directly before slim starts. Unfortunately the error message is unreadable because of graphic bugs, but I can read "Intel" so I guess it has something to do with the drivers. To switch I just removed xf86-video-intel with pacman -Rs and installed vesa. Should I have done anything more? Since I don't have a xorg.conf I thougt this should be enough.

My graphic card: "Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller"
I am using Arch Linux 32bit which I've installed with the newest installation medium in december.

eldragon · 2012-12-14 10:37:08

how did you "switch to vesa"? post xorg.conf

athelas · 2012-12-14 11:55:40

As written in my first post I don't have an xorg.conf. I removed xf86-video-intel with pacman -Rs and installed vesa. That's all I've done.

Lone_Wolf · 2012-12-17 13:32:19

$ pacman -Si xf86-video-intel |grep Depends
Depends On     : intel-dri  libxvmc  xcb-util>=0.3.9  systemd

Check if intel-dri is still installed, if so remove it.
in case that doesn't help, please post /var/log/Xorg0.log

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2012-12-17 13:32:30)

athelas · 2012-12-18 12:21:54

No, intel-dri is not installed. I've copied /var/log/Xorg.0.log into this pastebin. It shows that Intel module is still going to be loaded, but fails. But I don't know how to fix it and if something else is wrong.

Lone_Wolf · 2012-12-18 14:34:44

[     9.649] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0
[     9.649] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 1
[     9.649] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 2
[     9.649] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 3
[     9.649] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 4
[     9.649] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[     9.649] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
[     9.690] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module intel
[     9.690] (II) UnloadModule: "intel"
[     9.690] (II) Unloading intel
[     9.690] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0)

This is normal, after detecting which gpu drivers are possible for the hardware, xorg tries to start them in order.
since xf86-video-intel is no longer installed, it fails and xorg tries the next one.

Do you get a message when booting into multi-user instead of slim/graphical ?

athelas · 2012-12-18 14:58:59

I disabled slim, but when I start xfce with startxfce4 I got the same message. But I guess there is more going wrong, because I tried to get to a virtual console but it's not working. F1 is the same as F7 and all the others don't work. Either I am getting a blank black screen or it is crashing with an ugly green screen. And I tried to log off a few times from xfce and the pc is crashing then as well! Not sure it has something to with the graphic drivers though.

Gusar · 2012-12-18 15:55:27

Wouldn't it be better to try to solve those application problems with intel, rather than going for the worst possible solution that is the vesa driver? Also, it makes no sense to say "everything works" when in fact nothing does.

PS. The vesa X driver really does not play well with KMS. There's a simple way to deactivate KMS, but I'd rather you work on the *actual* solution.

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Problem after switching graphic card driver

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