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I have arch installed on my laptop, and now when I boot my screen will come up blank and I cannot see the login prompt. The OS is still running because I can login though ssh, and I can type the login on the laptop and it will log me in, I just can't see anything! Now this is a base install of Arch with nothing but the packages on the CD, which have been upgraded with pacman -Syu. After udev, when it turns the resoultion up, my screen goes blank. At frist I thought it was just going to the VGA port on the laptop, so I hooked a screen up to that and it didn't show anything either. I've search for a long time on how to change the display settings of your virtual terminal and agetty but I couldn't find anything. Also there is no windowing system installed yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Look into Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) and try turning it off.
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Thank you hokasch, adding nomodeset to my kernel line in grub allowed me to boot AND be able to see my screen! It was pretty ugly at 640x480 though, so I removed nomodeset and replaced it with vga=0x362 which is a 1280x800 24bit framebuffer.
Thank you again for pointing me in the right direction!
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