Comment # 2 on bug 1119621 from Tejas Guruswamy

(In reply to Felix Miata from comment #1)
> You may be able to workaround this by removing the unofficially deprecated
> xf86-video-intel driver. I have no such problem with modesetting on Kaby
> Lake:

I uninstalled xf86-video-intel{,-32bit}, then remade the initrd, but still the
same result. 4.18 kernels work, and 4.19 kernels do not.

> inxi -bxx
System:    Host: hobbes Kernel: 4.18.15-1-default x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 8.2.1 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.4 
           tk: Qt 5.11.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed
20181213 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: PC Specialist product: N7x0WU v: N/A serial:
<root required> Chassis: No Enclosure type: 10 
           serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: CLEVO model: N7x0WU serial: <root required> UEFI: American
Megatrends v: 5.12 date: 11/28/2017 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.5 Wh condition: 41.2/43.8 Wh (94%) volts:
16.8/14.6 model: Notebook BAT serial: 0001 
           status: Charging 
CPU:       Quad Core: Intel Core i7-8550U type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake speed:
800 MHz min/max: 400/4000 MHz 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: i915 v:
kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5917 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: modesetting unloaded:
fbdev,vesa alternate: intel compositor: kwin_x11 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Kabylake GT2) v:
4.5 Mesa 18.1.7 compat-v: 3.0 
           direct render: Yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI 
           port: e000 bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           Device-2: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port:
e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 8086:2526 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 183.40 GiB (78.7%) 
Info:      Processes: 265 Uptime: N/A Memory: 7.67 GiB used: 1.73 GiB (22.5%)
Init: systemd v: 239 runlevel: 5 
           target: runlevel5.target Compilers: gcc: 8.2.1 alt: 8 clang: 6.0.1
Shell: bash v: 4.4.23 running in: yakuake 
           inxi: 3.0.28