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 08:55:24 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:42:19 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >   for me, this appears to be the offending commit:
> > > >
> > > > commit 5e82ea99827f6aa122fbb08f8659e76226ce107b (now testing)
> > > > Merge: ec30f34 abb72c8
> > > > Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> > > > Date:   Tue Jan 25 10:46:14 2011 +1000
> > > >
> > > >     Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ai
> > >
> > > Let's just test the other parent ec30f343d to be sure it came in with the
> > > drm merge.
> >
> >   so that's something you want me to test?  checking out that commit
> > ec30f343d and trying it?
>
> Yes. If abb72c8 works and 5e82ea9 does not, then ec30f34 must be at fault
> (since the merge looks clean), verifying that the bug was introduced
> between abb72c828 and ec30f34.

  well, now i'm confused since it *appears* that, when i went to
double-check the results, the earlier commit abb72c8 *doesn't* work,
and i could swear that it did.  so i'll just redo *all* of the
relevant commits and report back.  grrrrrr ...

rday

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