On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Greg Freemyer wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Robert P. J. Day >> <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > 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 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
