Am 09.07.2010 15:22, schrieb Xiaochen Gao:
Dear All, Sorry for the spam. I am new to this list and I'm fairly new to Arch Linux. I encountered a problem when I tried to install and use Arch Linux 2010.05. It seems to be: if modules auto-load is set to yes or I manually set i915 to load in rc.conf, my computer will stop and chang to blank black screen. If I disable i915 the system will start without error, but only with low defination display. My computer is new lenovo Thinkpad X201, with i5-540 processor and integrated Intel HD Graphics. Here I'm wondering whether it is a i915 error, or BIOS or any problem of my computer? And can I have an alternative method to start my Arch Linux system with normal defination display?
This is likely to be a BIOS problem. There are a few known laptop models with that problem (some are fixed in 2.6.35 apparently, some not). In general, the i5-based GPUs are supported and work quite well - the only problems are broken BIOSes and some unsupported panels that should be fixed in future Linux versions. You can try a 2.6.35-rc4 kernel, if that doesn't help, try a BIOS update. If that doesn't help, I don't know any further, maybe contact the kernel.org bugzilla about it.