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pobre_incaut

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Registered: 2009-12-03

Posts: 12

Disabling intel KMS, kde fails to start

I've tried to disable intel KMS by changing in grup menu.lst the option i915.modeset to 0.

So, KMS is disabled, but then kdm/kde won't start!!! When I try to restart KDM i says all [DONE], but if I try startx recieve a fatal error saying there weren't screens found.

Monsters(probably) stole my screen?

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Disabling intel KMS, kde fails to start

The X driver won't work without KMS anymore. Any particular reason you want to disable KMS?

pobre_incaut

Member

Registered: 2009-12-03

Posts: 12

Re: Disabling intel KMS, kde fails to start

Humm, I thought it would work, I did this because of what I read in the wiki about Intel KMS.

The only problem I've had with KMS is that after suspend to RAM I get a black screen.

Mr.Elendig

#archlinux@freenode channel op

From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Disabling intel KMS, kde fails to start

http://www.archlinux.org/news/484/

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Evil #archlinux@libera.chat channel op and general support dude.
. files on github, Screenshots, Random pics and the rest

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Disabling intel KMS, kde fails to start

Since xf86-video-intel 2.10, using KMS is mandatory.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Int … Setting.29

pobre_incaut

Member

Registered: 2009-12-03

Posts: 12

Re: Disabling intel KMS, kde fails to start

Shit. Any clues about resume after suspend? I've tried the adding the resume hook to the initrd image, but it makes no diference...

broch

Banned

From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 975

Re: Disabling intel KMS, kde fails to start

nope,
I went back to
xorg-server 1.7.6-4 / xf86-video-intel 2.9.1-1 (because xorg 1.8 is real s** on intel even with kernel 2.6.34.1 that supposed to fix broken intel video) and removing KMS kills kde. However my new old setup works with suspend to disk (though suspend to RAM is still broken kernel bug unable to cope with dynamic cpufreq set in BIOS and related to nohz and highres). At least now combination of  xorg-server 1.7.6-4 / xf86-video-intel 2.9.1-1 with kernel 2.6.34.1 allows for disk suspension.