Re: is there a fix for ubuntu with intel GPU booting to blank screen?

Robert P. J. Day
2011-01-01T11:18:15Z

On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 12:01 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> >
> > ... snip related to i915 blank screen issues ...
> >
> > > Since you know how to compile kernel, and even have a close working
> > > version, you really should just bisect the bug.
> > >
> > > Bisection is a built-in in the git binary search that allows you to
> > > find the first commit that introduced the bug.
> > >
> > > For example, quick google gives,
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git-core/docs/v1.0.13/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt
> >
> > oh, i know how to do bisection but, to be frank, i just don't have
> > the time. i'm under a brutal deadline for some billable work and,
> > even if i had the time, i suspect that when i eventually tracked down
> > the commit, i probably wouldn't really appreciate what i was looking
> > at, anyway.

> You truly underestimate this. Having commit that broke things points
> perfectly at the issue. Then, developers can even just revert the
> offending commit until it is understood why it breaks stuff.

one of the difficulties (if i'm reading this correctly) is that the
issue isn't even reliably reproducible. a number of people who have
reported this claim that *sometimes* the system boots properly but
it's hit and miss, so it's not even clear you can bisect
deterministically.