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



On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 14:56 +0200, Wearenotalone wrote:
> Hello there,
> after updating my Debian Wheezy/Testing to linux kernel 3.2 my screen 
> goes black at boot, too. My system is a Lenovo Thinkpad L420 with an 
> Intel Core i3 (HD3000) inside. The fix posted above 
> (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2012-January/014332.html) 
> fixes this bug for me.

This was committed as:

commit 7885d2052bd94395e337709cfba093a41f273ff1
Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date:   Thu Jan 12 14:51:17 2012 -0800

    drm/i915: mask transcoder select bits before setting them on LVDS

which was included in Linux 3.3.

I'll apply it and submit it for inclusion in 3.2.y.

> If you dont want to compile a custom kernel, a temporary workaround is 
> to add "i915.modeset=0" to the grub command line.

Or use the package from experimental.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false.

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