On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:37:16AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:21:01AM +0700, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote: > > Seems that you also suffer problem with Intel driver and kernel > > 2.6.32. Upgrade your xf86-video-intel to v2.11.0 may help. > > Actually, I am still on kernel 2.6.30; with .32 something's not quite > right with the KMS and on boot my laptop's LCD is not detected. I'll > try 2.11.0 to see if it also fixes my problem.
Just as an aside, my issue with the 2.6.32 kernels turns out to be a bios bug: the bios reports the lid to my netbook is closed even when it is open (cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state shows 'closed'). Now starting kernel 2.6.32 apparently the KMS was 'fixed' to trust the bios reporting, hence it does not think *any* computer display is attached to the computer. This leads to a kernel error on boot and a blank screen. Anyway, Pablo (whoever you are: thanks!), a gentoo user, commented on a Ubuntu bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/515246/comments/55 and provided the RTFM response: apparently we can override the bios by passing a suitable boot parameter to explicitly enable the LCD display on the laptop. With this now I'll be able to upgrade to a newer version of the kernel and test out the new intel X drivers. Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
