Bug#549375: Any other workaround ?

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

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

If using a plain Debian kernel, see http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting

Brice