Hi :) On Wednesday 14 October 2009 21:35:58 David C. Rankin wrote:
On Monday 12 October 2009 02:51:51 pm Dusty wrote:
Hey guys,
I have managed to upgrade (pacman -Syu) grabbing the new kernel upgrade and not killing my X using KMS.
What I did to avoid the problems you guys are getting is the following:
1) Goto the ArchWiki and search for intel and bring up the following page:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics
2) Follow the steps for the KMS settings..
3) Then run pacman -Syu and grab the updates, install them.
4) Reboot.
5) It works :)
I have the following hardware:
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Primary display adapter: #9 root ~ #
I suspect, if you were to follow the KMS steps in the above URL, then reboot you will probably be ok. If that doesn't work, I would roll back, do the KMS steps, then upgrade (grab the new kernel) and reboot..
Hope this helps you guys,
Let me know how you get on.
Kind Regards,
Dusty.
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Dusty, Glad you got it working, but for me:
Bummer :-(
I have followed the wiki to a T, using 'Late' Start, but my intel box is still dead in the water:
I'm using the "Early" start on an MSI Wind and works perfect.
Last login: Tue Oct 13 10:44:44 2009 from alchemy.3111skyline.com 14:24 supersff:~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf # # /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels) # options i915 modeset=1 14:25 supersff:~> grep i915 /etc/rc.conf MODULES=(tg3 acx intel_agp i915)
I have updated everything, and I still get the black screen of death. On boot, you can tell that X tries to start, the screen flashes, but then BAM back to the terminal screen. Latest logs:
How about booting into runlevel 3 and then manualy running "startx"? Have you tried that?
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log.1014
Been looking through your log and see this line: Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda6 ro vga=0x31a Shouldn't you remove all the vga= and/or video= options in menu.lst? Maybe that's the problem. HTH Rafa -- "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." rgriman@skype.com rgriman@jabberes.org Happily using KDE 4.3.1 :)