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: > > <snip> > > > 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. > > <snip> > > 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@xxxxxxxxx rgriman@xxxxxxxxxxxx Happily using KDE 4.3.1 :)
