[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 start

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 norma

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 Le

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

[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] 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 initra