Re: [regression?] Sometime (often) X come out blank (black screen) on cold boot - Intel chipset

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:03 pm Romano Giannetti wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 11:06 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:38 am Romano Giannetti wrote:
> >
> > This sounds like a DUP; I remember Justin Madru had a similar issue (with
> > Ubuntu & gdm even iirc).
> >
> > Is there any way you could run the latest git bits of the Intel X driver?
> > I've added some debugging that could catch at least one of the common
> > reasons why the display would blank like that...
>
> Yes, I think I can. Please give me instructions... I have a git
> repository tracking Linus' one.
>
> BTW, maybe I'm on dope, but thinking hard, it seems to me that the blank
> screen happens nly when I cold reboot after a crash forced me to
> poweroff abruptly the laptop. Last time happened after a battery runoff.
> It's that possible?
>
> Moreover, I see a lot of flashing on shutdown (I'm sure I've seen a
> report like that, but I am unable to dig it out now)...

Check out http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/ for instructions on building the 
driver.  You may also want to check out Freedesktop bug 15602 which Justin 
filed upstream (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15602).

Thanks,
Jesse