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[Flavio <fbcyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 February 2012 22:55, vick <weasalandme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have an intel_backlight along with the acpi_video0 in the /sys/class/backlight directory. I wonder if that's the problem. Do you have the i915 and drm modules loaded. Make sure you have kms (modesetting) enabled. Check your /etc/modprobe.d directory for something like i915-kms.conf with options i915 modest=1 in it.

OK, the missing intel_backlight could be the problem.
I have i915 compiled, and now I have
CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y
# CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS is not set

If I enable DRM_I915_KMS and put i915 as module, I get a blank screen
at the end of the boot process.
I've also created the file /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf with the
following content:
option i915 modest=1

I am not able to reboot even with the ALT+Print+{e,i,s,u,b}. :(
The system becomes unresponsive and I have to press the shutdown
button (by the way, it is the same problem
I have when I try the "sleep" function by KDE).

I don't know if this has something to do with my problem but I use
uvesafb, as described here:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/

-- 
Flavio