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From: gnurou@gmail.com (Alexandre Courbot)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: anyone know of a resolution for the intel i915 "black screen" issue?
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:09:34 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=mnzYY2TSWVh11FT-m0JKB=ho5qubTQHvkR9K6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1101150507430.4567@localhost6.localdomain6>

> ?are you confirming that you had the same problem, or that you can
> see it's fixed?

Both. At first I thought I forgot to enable something in my kernel
configuration and did not care that much about it, then I saw your
message and tried again with the latest git, to see the problem was
fixed.

> the blackout clearly started early in the boot, when
> the kernel tried to switch to high-res mode to continue printing
> kernel messages. ?suddenly, with a kernel based on a pull from the
> latest merge window, that switch works just fine and booting is good.

Yes, this is exactly the behavior I had.

Alex.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-15 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-14 16:15 anyone know of a resolution for the intel i915 "black screen" issue? Robert P. J. Day
2011-01-14 22:13 ` Greg Freemyer
2011-01-14 22:19   ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-01-14 22:50   ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-01-14 23:04     ` Greg Freemyer
2011-01-14 23:08       ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-01-14 23:11         ` Greg Freemyer
2011-01-15  1:18           ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-01-15  4:22             ` Alexandre Courbot
2011-01-15 10:10               ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-01-15 10:37                 ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-01-15 12:35                   ` Philip Downer
2011-01-15 12:46                     ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-01-15 12:09                 ` Alexandre Courbot [this message]

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