Created attachment 41422 [details] Kernel config (builtin) With a recent kernel (from mainline git repo), my system boots fine, but shortly into the boot process, the screen goes, and remains, black. This occurs well out of the bootloader, but I'm not sure exactly where in the normal linux startup it's happening. There's apparently no GPU hang, since the boot apparently finishes normally, and I can get a perfectly normal X session by blindly typing 'startx'. My normal kernel config has AGP / DRM / Intel / Consoleframebuffer stuff (along with just about everything else possible) built as modules. When I switched that whole chain to builtin, the system comes up fine, without the black screen. # 'lscpi -v' ... 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0090 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at d0180000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 # 'uname -a' Linux lizzie 2.6.37-rc6-lizzie-00132-g55ec86f #31 Mon Dec 20 16:45:00 EST 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Debian Sid, on an Acer Aspire 3690 I'm attaching the two kernel configs.
Created attachment 41432 [details] Kernel config (modular)
Is this still seen on 3.2/3.4 era kernels ?
I don't remember whether the problem ever went away, but in any event, the original machine has been decommissioned, so I cannot answer the question; sorry.
Thanks I'll close the bug as obsolete as the driver has changed a lot since then
Hi, I know this bug was closed a while ago but I can confirm that it still exists on the 3.2 kernel (fresh debian7 install).
Please open a new bug for it