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

 victory is mine!  just built a new kernel from latest git pull, changed nothing, installed, booted and it works.  no idea what's changed or what fixed it.

Confirmed! I had the same problem on my two intel machines. At first I thought it was a misconfiguration of mine (X started and virtual consoles worked from then on, but I had no boot messages after the initial kernel mode setting). Glad to see this fixed. Alex.