anyone know of a resolution for the intel i915 "black screen" issue?

[Greg Freemyer]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Robert P. J. Day
>> <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> 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