Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-06 Thread Tom K
Thomas Bächler wrote: Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas schrieb: Removing radeon from initramfs and putting it in MODULES section of rc.conf solves the problem. Hm, I hope you are happy this way until we know what's going on ... the problem is certainly not that the firmware is not put in

[arch-general] Yikes! kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 leaves Toshiba laptop unbootable

2009-12-06 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I had a fairly rude surprise when I pulled the testing updates tonight. The install of kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 left my toshiba 205d laptop unbootable. The boot process would start as usual but then get to a point just after it had started X and lock. There was no way to ctrl+f1 to break

Re: [arch-general] Yikes! kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 leaves Toshiba laptop unbootable

2009-12-06 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
Did you know you can append 3 to the kernel line in the boot menu of GRUB in order to boot in init 3? This would avoid loading X and could be useful for you. I have no idea what could be causing your problem, however. Sébastien Leblanc

Re: [arch-general] Yikes! kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 leaves Toshiba laptop unbootable

2009-12-06 Thread David C. Rankin
On Sunday 06 December 2009 22:30:29 and regarding: Did you know you can append 3 to the kernel line in the boot menu of GRUB in order to boot in init 3? This would avoid loading X and could be useful for you. I have no idea what could be causing your problem, however. Sébastien Leblanc

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS

2009-12-06 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 05 December 2009 08:51:23 and regarding: Hi, I installed kernel26 and kernel26-firmware from testing, and I'm experiencing some problems with KMS. During system initialization, the system requests the firmware radeon/R300_cp.bin, waits a couple of seconds and then proceeds normal

[arch-general] [WORK-AROUND] Re: Yikes! kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 leaves Toshiba laptop unbootable

2009-12-06 Thread David C. Rankin
On Sunday 06 December 2009 22:23:32 and regarding: I had a fairly rude surprise when I pulled the testing updates tonight. The install of kernel26-2.6.32-1-x86_64 left my toshiba 205d laptop unbootable. The boot process would start as usual but then get to a point just after it had started