Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: [regression?] Sometime (often) X come out blank (black screen) on cold boot - Intel chipset | Date | Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:06:23 -0700 |
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On Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:38 am Romano Giannetti wrote: > I just opened this: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10892 . I > think itś a regression, but (read the description) I am not so sure, so > I checked regression but I have not blocked Rafael's metabug. > > Latest working kernel version: 2.6.25 > Earliest failing kernel version: After 2.6.25, exatcly don't know, probably > 2.6.26-rc3 > Distribution:Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy > Hardware Environment: toshiba U305 intel-based laptop, see > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=16067&action=view > Software Environment:xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.2.1-1ubuntu12, see also > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=16066&action=view > Problem Description: > > Sometime, on cold boot (after the laptop has been shut off), when the > screen switch from the Ubuntu startup to gdm, the screen goes blank. > Forever. Rebooting (warm) with the same kernel cures it, sometime. If I > reboot 2.6.25 it cures it everytime. > > Otherwise, the system seems to be working. > > It was difficult to see because I almost never do a cold boot, the laptop > is either sleeping (s2ram) or on, or (warm) rebooted when I test a new > kernel. > > Helps / tricks to gather more data when it happens are welcome.
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...
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