Bug#549375: Any other workaround ?

[Thomas Hahn <thahn01@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:

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

Tnx for the info.
I have changed the command line via /boot/grub/menu.lst to
 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda5 ro vga=0x0361 resume=/dev/sda8 modeset=1

Should I see anything about KMS in the /var/log/messages file or in Xorg.0.log?

Mouse cursor still invisible in highest resolution for the Dell 19" screen.
At 1152x864 it is there, but as soon as I change to the native 1280x1024 it's gone.
Display is anything other than crisp, so I really would like to get the native resolution
back to my main screen.

Thomas