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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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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#c45">Comment # 45</a>
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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 <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:wucknitz@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de" title="Olaf Wucknitz <wucknitz@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>"> <span class="fn">Olaf Wucknitz</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Jani Nikula from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=105549#c42">comment #42</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to Seweryn Kokot from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=105549#c41">comment #41</a>)
> > Created <span class=""><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></span>
> > 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.
>
> On BIOS side, only a VBT change could fix the issue. So the above statement
> seems a bit odd.</span >
I had the same problem with my Latitude 5490, which I got already with BIOS
1.1.9. The kernel patch did solve the problem then, thanks a lot for that!
Now I upgraded to BIOS 1.2.3 and find that it indeed works fine without the
patch.</pre>
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