On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
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.
are you confirming that you had the same problem, or that you can see it's fixed? the blackout clearly started early in the boot, when the kernel tried to switch to high-res mode to continue printing kernel messages. suddenly, with a kernel based on a pull from the latest merge window, that switch works just fine and booting is good. but i still have no idea which commit resolved that.
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. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================