Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 16 October 2009 07:30:51 pm Dario wrote: > Hi! > > In data venerdì 16 ottobre 2009 23:20:45, Damjan Georgievski ha scritto: > > Does you KDE work if you try to log in as a new clean user? > > I'd also try to use another login manager, if you haven't tried this way > yet, trying another

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 16 October 2009 04:20:45 pm Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > The fbcon is the Biggie!. But that is now some compiled into the kernel > > magic that I'm pretty much at a loss to deal with. I installed > > xf86-video-fbdev and the fbdev error is gone, but as others correctly > > said, that was

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread Dario
Hi! In data venerdì 16 ottobre 2009 23:20:45, Damjan Georgievski ha scritto: > Does you KDE work if you try to log in as a new clean user? I'd also try to use another login manager, if you haven't tried this way yet, trying another desktop environment and trying to use the standard vesa driver

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> > The fbcon is the Biggie!. But that is now some compiled into the kernel magic > that > I'm pretty much at a loss to deal with. I installed xf86-video-fbdev and the > fbdev error is gone, but as others correctly said, that wasn't the problem. fbcon is the framebuffer console,i.e. a module that

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 16 October 2009 06:11:10 am Guus Snijders wrote: > 2009/10/16 David C. Rankin : > > On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:06:15 pm David C. Rankin > > [...] > > >> Maybe a brake-through I managed to get a strace of startx. While the > >> strace was running, I had a sustained X session with a s

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-16 Thread Guus Snijders
2009/10/16 David C. Rankin : > On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:06:15 pm David C. Rankin [...] >> Maybe a brake-through I managed to get a strace of startx. While the strace >> was running, I had a sustained X session with a small xterm in the top-left >> corner of the display. I couldn't do anythin

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:06:15 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > On Thursday 15 October 2009 05:54:11 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > > Any other ideas welcomed :p > > Maybe a brake-through I managed to get a strace of startx. While the strace > was running, I had a sustained X session with a small xt

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 05:54:11 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > > Any other ideas welcomed :p > Maybe a brake-through I managed to get a strace of startx. While the strace was running, I had a sustained X session with a small xterm in the top-left corner of the display. I couldn't do anythin

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 01:43:57 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > On Thursday 15 October 2009 01:19:25 pm Xavier wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:08 PM, David C. Rankin > > > > wrote: > > > latest Xorg.0.log is here: > > > > > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 01:19:25 pm Xavier wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:08 PM, David C. Rankin > > wrote: > > latest Xorg.0.log is here: > > > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log > > I don't see any errors in your xorg log. You are 100% sure it is t

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 01:19:25 pm Xavier wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:08 PM, David C. Rankin > > wrote: > > latest Xorg.0.log is here: > > > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log > > I don't see any errors in your xorg log. You are 100% sure it is t

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread Xavier
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:08 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > latest Xorg.0.log is here: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log > > I don't see any errors in your xorg log. You are 100% sure it is the correct one ? The timestamp from the log : (==) Log file: "/var/

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 07:47:11 am pascal wrote: > Hi > In the last Xorg.0.log I can see that you removed the "vga=0x31a" part. But > the vesa module is still loaded (and unloaded short after) just after the > intel module, and the output used is VGA1. I also have an 915 chipset > (though a

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 07:47:11 am pascal wrote: > Hi > In the last Xorg.0.log I can see that you removed the "vga=0x31a" part. But > the vesa module is still loaded (and unloaded short after) just after the > intel module, and the output used is VGA1. I also have an 915 chipset > (though a

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 15 October 2009 04:48:44 am Rafa Griman wrote: > 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

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread pascal
Le Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:48:44 +0200 Rafa Griman a écrit: > 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 no

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-15 Thread Rafa Griman
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 guy

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
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

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 12 October 2009 11:47:59 am Dusty wrote: > Hey David, > > I am tracking this email thread as this issue has affected a couple of > colleagues of mine and I'm holding back upgrading my box until I know > there is a definite resolution as I have been reading too many horror > stories ar

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-12 Thread Dusty
:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf Of Jan Spakula Sent: 11 October 2009 09:34 To: arch-general Subject: Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: > On Sunday 11 October

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-12 Thread Dusty
[arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: > I'm back already. The wiki page must be out of date. It says to pu