<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_REOPENED " title="REOPENED - Black/blank screen at boot (last message line: fb: switching to inteldrmfb from EFI VGA) unless i915.modeset=0 is set" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105549#c29">Comment # 29</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_REOPENED " title="REOPENED - Black/blank screen at boot (last message line: fb: switching to inteldrmfb from EFI VGA) unless i915.modeset=0 is set" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105549">bug 105549</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:valko@linux.karinthy.hu" title="Laszlo Valko <valko@linux.karinthy.hu>"> Laszlo Valko</a> <pre>(In reply to Jani Nikula from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=105549#c27">comment #27</a>) > Now, I presume Dell has inadvertently based their BIOS update on the newer > model's BIOS, without taking this into account. Wouldn't that cause similar problems with Windows? Or is the Windows graphics driver more resilient to such problems? I personally haven't tried Windows, but I saved the image so I could give it a try. > It would really be useful to get the VBT dumps before and after BIOS update. > Can you downgrade the BIOS? Unfortunately, Dell does not allow downgrading the BIOS. So we'd need a new machine that is not yet updated. Which is difficult, since people do not come here before they start having problems...</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> <li>You are on the CC list for the bug.</li> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>