[arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

[Dusty]

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:

root ~  #  hwinfo --gfxcard
09: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)              
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2a02
  Unique ID: _Znp.3gR64TvADaC
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "Lenovo T61"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x2a02 "965 GM"
  SubVendor: pci 0x17aa "Lenovo"
  SubDevice: pci 0x20b5 "T61"
  Revision: 0x0c
  Driver: "i915"
  Driver Modules: "drm"
  Memory Range: 0xf8100000-0xf81fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xefffffff (rw,prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x1800-0x1807 (rw)
  IRQ: 29 (10253 events)
  I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00002A02sv000017AAsd000020B5bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel
  Driver Info #1:
    XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel
    3D Support: yes
    Extensions: dri
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

10: PCI 02.1: 0380 Display controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2a03
  Unique ID: ruGf.a6pkzICrUB2
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.1
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "Lenovo T61"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x2a03 "Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x17aa "Lenovo"
  SubDevice: pci 0x20b5 "T61"
  Revision: 0x0c
  Memory Range: 0xf8200000-0xf82fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00002A03sv000017AAsd000020B5bc03sc80i00"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

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.

-----Original Message-----
From: arch-general-bounces at archlinux.org [mailto:arch-general-bounces at archlinux.org] On Behalf Of Jan Spakula
Sent: 11 October 2009 09:34
To: arch-general
Subject: Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009:
> On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote:
> I'm back already. The wiki page must be out of date. It says to put the 
> following in modprobe.conf (which is deprecated):
> 
>     options i915 modeset=1
> 
> Now what??

Put it in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (that's where I have it).

______________________________________________________________________
This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email 
______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________
This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.
For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email 
______________________________________________________________________