On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:28:16 -0600, Nathan Schulte wrote: > My issue, and I suspect the author's, is a modesetting issue. Sometimes I don't experience this issue and I am dropped to a console as expected; most other times I do experience the issue, and once udev loads my screen flickers and I'm presented with a black screen. > > Using the i915.modeset=0 as a kernel parameter indeed drops me to a standard 80x25 console, but that isn't suitable for me. > > The ArchWiki has a few workarounds: > > 1) Placing i915 in the initramfs. > 2) Using the kernel parameter "video=SVIDEO-1:d". > > I can confirm that both of these work for my hardware, allowing me to use modesetting with i915. > > I just want to note that this bug still exists in my version. I will test newer kernels from experimental, but I suspect they will resolve this issue. > Please post a dmesg without the video kernel param, and with drm.debug=6 instead. Thanks, Julien
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