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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Philip Downer wrote:

> On 15/01/11 10:37, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >    a quick perusal of the git log shows a number of recent
> > i915-related commits.  still not sure what fixed things so i'll be
> > keeping at least a couple earlier working kernels around.
>
> There was a recent mention of what I think is the issue on LWN, I
> tried to find out what the 'blank screen' issue was when mentioned
> as I have several boxes with intel graphics that haven't had issues,
> but couldn't find any more info, anyway excerpt and link below...
>
> "While we were on our holiday break, 2.6.37-rc8 was released on
> December 28. "The -rc8 release shouldn't be all that exciting. The
> most noticeable is probably the fact that hopefully the 'blank
> screen' problem with intel graphics is fixed. But on the whole, it's
> all just a collection of random fixes all over." See the full
> changelog for all the details." -lwn [1]
>
> Phil
>
> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/420887/

  i remember reading that, but i *tried* a kernel based on -rc8 and it
still had the same issue.  at this point, i'm going to count my
blessings and just hope it's been resolved once and for all.

rday

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