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gdm package

  1. Bug #615549
  2. Comment #47

Comment 47 for bug 615549

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Re: [Maverick] Dell Studio XPS 13 no video

Hm. That suggests to me that the main problem here might be the race in X start up. Could you please try running

echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
sudo update-initramfs -u

to get initramfs-tools to add the drm modules to your initramfs? This should ensure that they're loaded earlier and certainly before X.

If that fixes the problem I'll need to work out how to get libdrm to block appropriately while the kernel modules are being initialised.