Re: [Regression] Laptop screen dark when lid closed and reopened.with 3.1

Alex Davis
2011-09-27T10:16:56Z

At some point, Keith Packard asked:
>Are yo using the drm-intel-fixes branch there? That's the one with the
>FBC disable stuff.
PEBKAC. I must have booted another kernel. With your branch, I see the
password dialog when I manually adjust the brightness. It is no longer
necessary to switch to the text console.

>Alternatively, you can just disable FBC manually by adding the kernel
>argument:
>
>        i915.i915_enable_fbc=0
>