Le Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:48:44 +0200
Rafa Griman
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
Hi In the last Xorg.0.log I can see that you removed the "vga=0x31a" part. But the vesa module is still loaded (and unloaded short after) just after the intel module, and the output used is VGA1. I also have an 915 chipset (though a 915GM) and upgraded to Xorg from testing to see if I could reproduce your problem. Apart some serious performance regression (and some freezes...) it works almost fine. I diff'ed my Xorg.0.log with yours and I don't have the vesa module loaded. Also my output is set to LVDS1, which I remember changed when I went to KMS some months ago (before that the output was VGA1, if I record correctly). I also have a line saying " (**) intel(0): Kernel mode setting active, disabling FBC. ", which doesn't appear in your log. Makes me wonder if your kernel is really using KMS. When booted, does the framebuffer display in native resolution ? I switched back to Xorg from [extra] for stability matters. [testing] being for ... well, testing.