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  1. Bug #431812 (ultimateblackness)
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 431812

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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote : Re: fbcon loading a mystery (screen powers off)

@Scott
fbcon is loaded by the -intel driver by i830_kernel_mode_enabled() in src/i830_driver.c:

    ret = drmCheckModesettingSupported(busIdString);
    if (ret) {
 if (xf86LoadKernelModule("i915"))
     ret = drmCheckModesettingSupported(busIdString);
    }
    /* Be nice to the user and load fbcon too */
    if (!ret)
 (void) xf86LoadKernelModule("fbcon");

So basically i915 and fbcon are loaded when checking for KMS.