has the i915 "black screen" boot issue returned? [BISECTED]

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Chris Wilson wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:27:09 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >   victory is mine!  ok, that premature return seems to have solved it,
> > i'm up and running under this new kernel.  are we getting close?
>
> Not even close. We just disabled functionality that was working in 2.6.37;
> the interaction between ACPI and gfx. What a shame.
>
> Instead of return -ENOTSUPP at the start,
> you can return 0 before each of the if (mboxes & MBOX_*) to narrow down
> which function regressed.

  ok, i'll see how much of that i can get to today.  but at this
point, are we fairly convinced that there *is* a problem?  i'd hate to
go through all this, only to learn at the end that it's something
stupid i did.  it seems odd that no one else has mentioned running
into this -- have you heard no other reports?

  so, before i launch into this, is there anything else i might report
about my system and its current setup that someone might want to know?

rday

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