Bug#660394: Screen goes blank @30 seconds into boot

[Joel Heaton <jheaton5@comcast.net>]

On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 05:14 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> forwarded 660394 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.intel/8363/focus=8368
> quit
> 
> Joel Heaton wrote:
> 
> > This patched kernel also reproduced the bug. I have attached the
> > acpidump and dmesg for this boot.
> 
> Thanks.  Alas.
> 
> Could you try this[2] patch?
> 
> I'd suggest just editing drivers/acpi/video.c by hand to make the
> change directly, then running
> 
> 	make deb-pkg; # maybe with -j4
> 	dpkg -i ../<name of package>
> 	reboot
> 
> to test.  (No need for another acpidump --- its output is always the
> same on a given machine, except when BIOS settings change or in some
> unusual cases of corruption which don't match your symptoms.)
> 
> [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1234103

I made the change by editing drivers/acpi/video.c but the bug is
recreated.