Bug#623138: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Blank screen in X (no crash) after upgrading from Lenny to Wheezy, Sony Vaio PCG-R505B/P
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 19:29:24 +0200, Andrew Bettison wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.14.902-1
> Severity: important
>
>
> After upgrading my Sony Vaio PCG-R505B/P laptop from Lenny to Squeeze, the X screen (vt7) is always blank after booting.
> Switching virtual terminals works, and everything else appears to work fine (this bug report is being written on a
> SSH session on the laptop in question). The screen is still blank after restarting gdm.
>
> Marked as important because the two available workarounds do not work: using the fbdev driver crashes the kernel, and
> the vesa driver always gives "no screens found" error (despite exhausting all possibilities in xorg.conf).
>
Is this still an issue with updated kernel and X stack? Is it also an
issue without nvidia's driver/libGL installed?
Cheers,
Julien
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