<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_CLOSED bz_closed" title="CLOSED FIXED - 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#c41">Comment # 41</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_CLOSED bz_closed" title="CLOSED FIXED - 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:sewkokot@gmail.com" title="Seweryn Kokot <sewkokot@gmail.com>"> Seweryn Kokot</a> <pre>Created <a href="attachment.cgi?id=138885" name="attach_138885" title="dmesg, kernel 4.15.15, no patch, drm.debug=14, new BIOS 1.2.3">attachment 138885</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=138885&action=edit" title="dmesg, kernel 4.15.15, no patch, drm.debug=14, new BIOS 1.2.3">[details]</a> dmesg, kernel 4.15.15, no patch, drm.debug=14, new BIOS 1.2.3 Today (April 17th) Dell updated BIOS to ver. 1.2.3. I have upgraded the BIOS and now nomodeset is not needed anymore, nor the patch. It seems they fixed BIOS. For information I attach dmesg. Note that i915_vbt is not changed in the new BIOS.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are on the CC list for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>