On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 02:29:25AM +0000, Ben Pye wrote: > > > >The i915 firmware is not packaged and inteldrm does not try to load it > >if > >it is present. As you are using a replacement firmware it seems likely > >it does not provide vbt and opregion properly. > > Ah okay, I will have to investigate that further. To be specific the screen > goes black and the backlight actually turns off, upon killing xenodm it comes > back. It seems odd as again Linux appears to work fine and supposedly Windows > will run happily as well though I haven't tried that myself. >
If you can go back to the firmware it came with that would be an interesting comparison.
