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Old 02-25-2012, 10:30 PM   #1
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Booting into black screen


Checked anthony5's post and took it to mean solved by going back to Windows.

Anyway, before I get into the problem, am running pclos 2012 with kernel 2.6.38.8 pclos3 and am trying to find out how to check which graphics driver is being used via CL. Am running without xorg.conf

lspci -vv and lsmod claims i915 in use. Does this mean Intel i915 or Xorg i915?

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Old 02-26-2012, 02:54 AM   #2
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Old 02-26-2012, 10:18 AM   #3
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OK, so how do I force use of Xorg drivers?

PCLOS can use either XFdrake, drakconf in single user mode, or GUI Control Center (PCC), which I believe is a front end to drakconf.Whenever I select xorg drivers using these methods and then reboot, these tools indicate that intel drivers are still in use.

Any help appreciated.
 
Old 02-26-2012, 03:55 PM   #4
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Hi, to force the xorg drivers, you may need to blacklist the intel module.

In Mandriva and Mageia the file is in /etc/modprobe.d/...

find it with locate
Code:
glenn@GamesBox:~$ locate blacklist-mga                (26-02 17:46)
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mga
The file may be a different name with your system.

Once it's blacklisted you may reboot and then install the xorg intel driver package.
Quote:
x11-driver-video-intel - X.org driver for Intel graphics controllers​ 
x11-driver-video-intel is the X.org driver for Intel video chipsets.
restart x to see the results.

a tool to see what is running...

glxinfo and glxgears (mesa-demos). chec the switches with --help.

generally I use...
Code:
glxinfo | grep render
This should tell you what is being use for rendering to screen and if rendering is enabled.

Hope this helps, Glenn
 
  


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