This is what my video card shows when I do lspci 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV610 video device [Radeon HD 2400 PRO] On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Ignacio Galmarino <igalmarino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/22/2009 05:37 AM, Paul Ezvan wrote: >> >> Le mardi 22 décembre 2009 à 09:49 +0100, Xavier a écrit : >> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Frank Hale<frankhale@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I was using the testing kernel 2.6.32 without an issue but then when >>>> the kernel went to core my system would no longer boot. It would start >>>> to boot half way then just go dead. I don't have any error messages to >>>> post because the screen went blank. Grub was working fine as far as I >>>> can tell. I had to use the Arch live CD to revert kernels back to an >>>> earlier version. Has anyone been having issues with the stable kernel >>>> 2.6.32? Like I said, 2.6.32 from testing worked fine. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Uh ? It is the same package that moves from testing to core. The move >>> cannot break anything. >>> When you use testing, and a package gets moved, you cannot even notice >>> it, because pacman -Su won't do anything : you already have the latest >>> packages. >>> Maybe you want to be a bit more specific about which version exactly >>> you were using ? >>> If you don't know, you can check pacman logs. >>> The changes to kernel26 can be seen here : >>> >>> http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/kernel26/trunk/?op=log&rev=0&isdir=1 >>> There has apparently been one revision for each stable kernel release so >>> : >>> 2.6.32-1 >>> 2.6.32.1-1 >>> 2.6.32.2-1 >>> >>> 2.6.32.2 contains 5 radeon patches : >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.2 >>> If you can actually confirm that this is what broke your setup, this >>> narrows down the issue extremely. >>> The list of changes between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32 is likely awfully huge. >>> >> >> It seems that 2.6.32.2 is broken with r600 chips : >> >> http://old.nabble.com/-stable--Regression-in-2.6.32.2:-radeon-KMS-hangs-system-p26864854.html >> and >> >> http://old.nabble.com/-PATCH--stable---drm-radeon-kms:-fix-crtc-vblank-update-for-r600-p26869892.html. >> >> Paul >> >> > > Yes ... it does not work here (KMS + Radeon Mobility HD 3670). Works fine > with "nomodeset" > > Ignacio > >
