Bug#593432: Black screen with kms and i915

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.

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Bug#593432: Black screen with kms and i915

...@bugs.debian.org Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 8:55:35 AM Subject: Bug#593432: Black screen with kms and i915 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

Bug#593432: Black screen with kms and i915

Strange. Last night's update must have changed the default behavior. All of a sudden the content of /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf doesn't seem to matter anymore: kms is always off. The only way to trigger the problem is to add modeset=1 to the boot options. I guess this makes the problem less

Bug#593432: Info received (Bug#593432: Black screen with kms and i915)

Forget what I said about the default behavior having changed. This machine is a can full of Heisenbugs! After the fifth reboot, kms came back with a vengeance. Currently not even the conf file won't stop it. The only way I have to use the machine is the kernel from Ubuntu 10.4 that I