Hi there you might consider to first, report issue with your environment, like hardware or system version and, this seems more likely a video card driver issue, check out the driver for your netbook module, and it's should have a compatible one On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 04:26:37AM +0000, niya via arch-general wrote: > hi everyone > > i have a intel atom netbook that i have arch installed on and have been > using it for the last couple of years without any issues, > after doing a pacman -Syu recently when i reboot it gets through boot up to > the point of setting up the desktop and then crashes with 2 thirds of the > screen from left to right fill with a random rows of dots on a black > background and the last third has my desktop with an exit icon at the > bottom, > i went through the process of downgrading the kernel and got it to boot > normally again > i thought that because it was a 32 bit computer the problem was to do with > arch no longer supporting the i686 architecture > so i migrated the laptop to Arch Linux 32, everything went smoothly , after > the migration i rebooted the laptop and i was back with the same problem. > i chrooted into the laptop with a live usb stick and retrieved a portion of > the journal > here,s the log. error-report > <http://codepad.org/mtWYqv2N> > my Desktop Environment is lxde > if more of the logs are needed please let me know > > i would be thankful for any pointers to fixing the problem > > shadrock >