retitle 593432 [i830] Black screen with kms and i915 kthxbye On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:53:29 +0200, san...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote:
> When booting the screen goes black at the moment the frame buffer is > switched on. > Booting continues until the 'login prompt', but the screen remains black. > When > switching to a text screen, the screen gets darker for a second, but no > text login > appears. I can then, however, login blind and the machine works. For > example, > I can reboot it when logging in as root and calling 'shutdown' (all blind, > of course). > > The problem goes away when adding the line > > options i915 modeset=0 > > to the file /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf, so I guess it is a kms problem. > > If I wasn't a newbie I'd mark this bug as 'important', because it left a > freshly installed machine more or less completely unusable. > Is this a regression from a previous revision? Can you attach the dmesg from a kms boot? Cheers, Julien
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