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

[Greg Freemyer]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>
>> Add "i915.modeset=0" to your boot command line.  At least in 2.6.34
>> timeframe it used an alternate driver.
>
>  do you know *which* alternate driver, so i make sure i compile it
> in?

UMS, but I was using pre-compiled kernels, so I don't know what the
config option was.

Greg