Help - doesn't Arch support my computer anymore? [solved]

I had a fine Arch Linux system running on my Laptop, until yesterday's package upgrade - which pulled in xf86-video-intel-2.10.0-1. For some reason, this new version of the intel video driver now requires kernel modesetting being enabled. This puts me in the following peculiar situation:
- without the -nomodeset boot option, the screen turns blank at udev initialization and stays that way until reboot, making Arch unusable (see this thread)
- with the -nomodeset boot option, X now refuses to start due to the new intel video driver complaining about missing KMS
- the xf86-video-fbdev driver doesn't work, either
- the xf86-video-intel-stable driver from AUR fails to compile altogether
- I don't have an older binary of xf86-video-intel in my /var/cache/pacman anymore, either
So I have three questions now:
1) What other option do I have now to get a running Arch Linux system again?
2) Why on earth doesn't Arch Linux keep at least one stable/legacy version for such important and at the same time fragile/error-prone packages as the intel video driver in its official repos?
3) Who on earth decided to drop support for non-KMS-mode from the intel video driver? Was this an upstream decision, or do the Arch devs just not care about users for whom KMS doesn't work? (And the *are* many such users, see the link above...)
Last edited by sas (2010-06-23 18:52:24)

barzam wrote:1) What did you do to remove the cached version?
"rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*" is what I did... Disk space was running out, and many gigabytes of packages had accumulated there...
barzam wrote:If I bet someone can mail it to you or maybe you can do a forum search for places to get older packages.
Ok, I did a search, and finally I managed to download xf86-video-intel-2.9.1-1 from an out-of-sync mirror and downgraded to that... Everything works again...
barzam wrote:2) Maybe you should try Debian stable if that's what you need.
No, that's *not* what I'm asking for, no need for sarcasm.
I like the rolling-release approach...
But *sometimes*, you *do* want to downgrade a specific package, and it would be nice if Arch would makes this possible without forcing you to go dumpster diving in out of sync mirror archives or some other ridiculously hackish approch (at least for a select set of critical packages, like the kernel and important drivers).
Edit: fixed quote
Last edited by sas (2010-02-12 22:20:11)

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