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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:arch-general-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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 ______________________________________________________________________
