[arch-general] Must use nomodeset to enable boot

I have a Thinkpad T42 which has been happily running Arch for many months. Its video is AMD/ATI. After a recent upgrade I started getting the dreaded blank page on boot. Googling showed a lot of discussion of this on various distros including Arch. The only solution seems to be to set nomodeset, which works, but it appears to be deprecated. It's supposed to prevent some opensource drivers from working, although so far mine does. Any comments or advice about this please? -- Anthony Campbell - ac@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412