Bug#549375: Any other workaround ?

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Thomas Hahn wrote:
> Sigh, after upgrading I am having the same problem.
> On the build in screen of the laptop the mouse cursor is visible, but
> on the bigger TFT it has disappeared.
>
> # CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS is not set
>
> So, I need to build my own kernel?
>
> Anything else necessary to get KMS working?

You can enable KMS with your current kernel by passing modeset=1 to the
i915 module at startup, either through the initramfs config or on the
kernel command line.

Brice