On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Robert P. J. Day [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Robert P. J. Day
[off-list ref] wrote:

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?i haven't been following closely enough -- has there been a
solution checked in for the (common) problem of recent git trees
producing a totally black screen shortly after boot with onboard
intel i915 graphics?

?i'd really like to start building kernels again for my ubuntu
system but everything lately still gives me a black screen.

rday

robert,

I haven't seen any reports of that on the opensuse list and they are
using 2.6.37 kernels for factory.

They did have issues like that back in 2.6.34 timeframe (ie. when os
11.3 was released), so one had to disable the new KMS driver if you
had an intel graphics adapter.

So I'm not sure which kernel you're worried about.

?here's a report of mine from back in december:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/newbies/msg41792.html

so this has been going on far more recently than 2.6.34. ?what did
disabling the KMS driver involve? ?i can try that as a workaround.

rday

Add "i915.modeset=0" to your boot command line.  At least in 2.6.34
timeframe it used an alternate driver.

Greg