Arch Linux

Hi there,

i did a reinstall today from a freshly burned 0.8 cd, and on first startup something strange happened. When "Loading UDev uevents" appeared, the display went totally mad and displayed only garbled chaos. The system does not hang, but the screen is simply unreadable...

Then i installed from an older iso from november 2006 and everything went fine until i updated the kernel. On the next startup, the display got mad again. For the record: I only did a "pacman -Suy" and updated the installed base system...

The madness happens with Kernel 2.6.20.x-ARCH (at least 2.6.20.4 and 2.6.20.7). With kernel26beyond everything is ok and it works as it should be.

Now the weird thing: It only happens on a clean base install. After installing the beyond kernel and finally having a functional system, i installed xorg, kde etc. Then i tried loading Kernel26 again with this setup and it works...

I really dont know whats happening here, and it happens only with Kernel26 on a clean base install. As said, after installing xorg, a DE and a bunch of apps, the mad display is gone...

Here is some hardware info:
ASrock 775Dual-VSTA (VIA PT880 Pro/Ultra)
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz
nVidia GeForce 7600GT PCIe

Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 Host Bridge
00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 I/O APIC Interrupt Controller
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT894 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c)
00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)
80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10)

Tell me if you need more info...