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priapism

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Registered: 2011-12-17

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] "early kms" doesn't work.

Hi, first time poster. Arch is working the way I want it, so if this doesn't get solved its not a showstopper or anything. But I figure someone here will know whats wrong, so I'll ask.

I finally decided to try setting up a splash screen. Plymouth wiki told me to get kms going early, and informed me that it defaults to later in the boot process.

I edited /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (like the intel page on the wiki says), and I put:

MODULES="intel_agp i915"

Then I did mkinitcpio -p linux as root, and then mkinitcpio -p kernel26. When I reboot, I get the following:

*ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module.
DRM: Fill_in_dev failed.

Doesn't matter which kernel I boot. This causes xorg to fail to start, which causes me to revert the changes and reboot so that I can use XFCE.

My system is a dell latitude E6400 with intel graphics. I installed grub2 instead of grub during net install. I'm not sure what other information will be helpful, but I'm sure that you will let me know.

Last edited by priapism (2011-12-18 03:03:55)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,949

Re: [SOLVED] "early kms" doesn't work.

try adding agpgart to the MODULES= line .

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