13 Nov
2011
13 Nov
'11
5:02 p.m.
hollunder@lavabit.com, Sun 2011-11-13 @ 11:18:05-0500:
Another workaround is to disable kms by booting with the nomodeset option.
Another new issue is that my mousepointer frequently flickers/disappears and that xv video out in smplayer doesn't work anymore, but both of those are with the nomodeset option, have yet to test with kms enabled again.
I was under the impression that KMS was required in order to run modern versions of X. If that's the case, it's likely that your new issues are a result of the nomodeset kernel parameter. I'd try reenabling KMS and adding i915 to the initcpio. That may solve the problem. For what it's worth, I'm not seeing the mouse cursor flickering. I don't use smplayer so I can't speak to that problem.