Laptop black screen with mouse when booting from shutdown [solved]

Question

Ok I am kind of at a loss at the moment. I have done a fresh install of arch for a friend. When I boot the laptop from a shutdown status it boots and I see systemd proccessing, but as soon as it reaches the desktop it is just a black screen with the mouse cursor. To reach the desktop I have to press ctl alt f1 than ctl alt f2.  Here are some things I have done to tryand fix it.
The laptop
Dell
pentium M T2060, mobile 945GM
~/.xinitrc
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
eval "$(dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session)"
fi
export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0"
exec openbox-session
Openbox autostart.sh
compton -CGb &
pcmanfm --desktop &
tint2 &
sleep 4 && wbar
slim.conf
default_path /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
default_xserver /usr/bin/X
xserver_arguments -nolisten tcp vt07
halt_cmd /sbin/shutdown -h now
reboot_cmd /sbin/shutdown -r now
console_cmd /usr/bin/xterm -C -fg white -bg black +sb -T "Console login" -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /etc/issue; exec /bin/login"
#suspend_cmd /usr/sbin/suspend
xauth_path /usr/bin/xauth
authfile /var/run/slim.auth
numlock on
login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session
sessiondir /usr/share/xsessions/
screenshot_cmd import -window root /slim.png
welcome_msg Welcome to %host
shutdown_msg The system is blowing up
reboot_msg There is a virus...
default_user tim
auto_login yes
current_theme default
lockfile /var/lock/slim.lock
logfile /var/log/slim.log
I edited my hooks to look like this thinking that adding resume would help
HOOKS="systemd modconf block resume filesystems keyboard fsck"
Here is my syslinux.cfg
DEFAULT arch
PROMPT 0 # Set to 1 if you always want to display the boot: prompt
TIMEOUT 50
UI menu.c32
#UI vesamenu.c32
MENU TITLE Arch Linux
#MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
MENU COLOR border 30;44 #40ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR title 1;36;44 #9033ccff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR sel 7;37;40 #e0ffffff #20ffffff all
MENU COLOR unsel 37;44 #50ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR help 37;40 #c0ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout_msg 37;40 #80ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout 1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR msg07 37;40 #90ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR tabmsg 31;40 #30ffffff #00000000 std
LABEL arch
MENU LABEL Arch Linux
LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
APPEND root=/dev/sda1 rw
INITRD ../initramfs-linuxY.img
LABEL archfallback
MENU LABEL Arch Linux Fallback
LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
APPEND root=/dev/sda1 rw
INITRD ../initramfs-linux-fallback.img
LABEL arch-ck
MENU LABEL Arch Linux-ck
LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-ck
APPEND root=/dev/sda1 ro init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd elevator=bfq
INITRD ../initramfs-linux-ck.img
I have also tried linux-ck to try a different kernel with no luck. When I reboot the computer it goes to the desktop.
Last edited by mich04 (2013-12-03 22:01:37)

Answer 1

ok, so I think I have foud a solution that works for me.
I created this file and added the following lines
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
    Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
        Driver      "intel"
        Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa"
      EndSection
I have shutdown 3 times and it has booted to the desktop everytime. When I remove this file and go back to sna it reproduces the error of the black screen.