[Intel-gfx] Screen unusable for console until X starts (945GM)

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel at sf-tec.de> wrote:
> I can switch the screen brightness during startup, but that only makes the
> black screen a dark grey screen, I still see no text.

Could be that we botch something with the enable sequence then. Can
you try 3.7-rc1 please (or the latest drm-intel-fixes tree from
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel)? The reworked modeset
code is reportedly better at not frying lvds panels ...

Yours, Daniel
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