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JohnnySSH

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Registered: 2013-05-04

Posts: 97

Unable to boot kernel 3.9.x on Toshiba NB510 Netbook

Hi,

I'm going to start with a quick question first not related to the title:

what is the difference between the modesetting package in the official repos and the one in the AUR (git) version?

It looks as though the AUR version hasn't been updated since 2012 so I'm just wondering if for HD playback it's worth installing that over the official version?

Will that give me 1920x1080 resolution on external HDMI screen?? My Lenovo X220 with supported hardware has no issues at all with HD playback or HD res on external screens using up to date Arch stock components; so is this just a simple case of gma500 HELL??

Now for the issue that I'm having, as these things are all related to HD playback using the gma500 driver, which I'm currently going through this to help:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Poulsbo

For some reason I'm unable to boot the 3.9.x kernel.... I've updated to all of the patch varients in the official repos and per the link above tried to build the lqx version...

I ran:

makepkg -s
pacman -U linux-lqx....tar.xz
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

to build and install the 64bit version. All went fine but when booting it as per all the stock kernels I get the same error:

	echo	'Loading Linux lqx kernel ...'
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-linux-lqx root=UUID=65811fe0-5600-4ad8-8a53-f43c89af0fad ro  quiet
	echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
	initrd	/boot/initramfs-linux-lqx-fallback.img

the system hangs right at the above....

Loading initial ramdisk ...

section.

Using kernel 3.8.11-1 64bit I'm up and running and using X11 with no problem but the newer kernels don't do anything??

This is strange as my other machine running Arch x64 also works fine with stock kernels and latest patch revision 3.9.4.

Could anyone suggest anything to resolve the issue or will I need to wait until the next generation kernel 3.10 or 4.0??

Thanks