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firecat53

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From: Lake Stevens, WA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-14

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Intel KMS with live usb boot

Hey. I've KMS (early start) working perfectly on an older 82845 card with all the newest updates to core (2.6.32, etc) and xf86-video-intel. However, using a larch bootable flash drive with all the same packages, I can't get KMS to engage -- early OR late start.

Is there something different about the speed or ??? with a flash drive boot?  I've been careful to ensure the .img file created from mkinitcpio had the correct hooks and the 'intel_agp i915' modules. I added the 'i915.modeset=1' to the kernel line in grub. It still boots fine with the new .img file, it just won't start KMS. Would be nice to have KMS, because there is substantial display corruption that occurs when I switch virtual terminals without KMS.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Scott

Last edited by firecat53 (2010-01-01 19:05:05)

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