On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 09:34:48PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

  just built a new kernel for ubuntu 10.10 (2.6.38-rc2) and,
depressingly, this kernel once again boots to a black screen given the
intel i915 onboard video.  this is getting frustrating.

Then let the i915 developers know about this, they just fixed a number
of issues relevant to this.

Complaining on a random mailing list will not get this resolved, no
matter how much we wish it were so :)

thanks,

greg k-h