Re: BUG: blank screen i915 (N10) LVDS in 2.6.37

From: Maciej Rutecki
Date: Wed Jan 12 2011 - 14:07:58 EST


I created a Bugzilla entry at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26602
for your bug report, please add your address to the CC list in there, thanks!

On piÄtek, 7 stycznia 2011 o 09:59:37 trentbuck@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> When I boot 2.6.37, the onboard head remains blank.
> It works in 2.6.36. In both cases, the VGA head works fine.
>
> I had problems with 2.6.37rc*; I can't remember if they were related,
> but I know .36 works for me. The screen blanks immediately after
> extlinux loads the kernel; I have i915 compiled in.
>
> I am using Debian Sid with xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.13.0-5.
>
> video=LVDS1:e does not help, nor does video=LVDS-1:e. With .32 (and
> .36, I think), xrandr reports LVDS-1 with the hyphen, but in .37 it
> reports it without the hyphen. Likewise for VGA1 VGA-1. I have not
> tried nomodeset.
>
> My default environment is fbcon. I tried to start X on .37 by typing
> blind into fbcon, and nothing came up. From this, I presume that X
> also can't address the LVDS head properly. I didn't try it with a VGA
> head attached.
>
> The unit in question is an Asus Eee PC 1005P netbook.
>
> IIRC I also changed from eeepc_laptop on .36 to eeepc_wmi .37 (with
> the associated change to the boot parameter in .config); dunno if that
> matters.

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Maciej Rutecki
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