On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com> wrote: > X should have been able to start using the vesa or fbdev driver. I'm > not sure why that doesn't happen --- do you have an Xorg log from > booting and trying to start X with a 3.2.y kernel without the > "drm/i915: add Ivy Bridge GT2 Server entries" patch? No, and it would be a bit of fiddling to get one. Like I said, I've modified that system with a graphics card since. If it's important, I could get it done, but probably not next week, I'll be traveling and otherwise busy.