has the i915 "black screen" boot issue returned?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Chris Wilson wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:47:23 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >   also, i just verified that i have a properly booting kernel based on
> > this commit:
> >
> > commit 58bbf018a70c562437eeae121a5d021ba7fe56a5
> > Author: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
> > Date:   Mon Jan 24 17:14:26 2011 -0500
> >
> >     drm/radeon/kms: add new radeon_info ioctl query for clock crystal freq
> >
> >     Needed for timer queries in the 3D driver.
> >
> >     Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > i chose that commit since, right after that, there are a couple
> > commits that are heavily i915-related:
> >
> > abb72c828878a2c69b2cfb33ac30007c8ecd735e
> > 5e82ea99827f6aa122fbb08f8659e76226ce107b
> >
> > and those would be the next things i check.  is there any other info
> > you'd like to see?
>
> The only missing detail is what connector is used for the display.
> Xorg.log or xrandr --verbose are the easiest.

  i can supply those for the currently *successful* boot, is that
what you're asking?  because once we're into black screen territory,
there's not a whole lot i can tell you.

rday

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