Re: Commit cfecde435dda78248d6fcdc424bed68d5db6be0b turns screen blank

From: Jeff Chua
Date: Fri Jun 04 2010 - 13:52:23 EST


On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 16:00 Fri 04 Jun     , Jeff Chua wrote:
>> The following commit causes screen to become blank. Upon boot up, screen
>> becomes blank (monitor can't sync to pc) with i915 compiled in the
>> kernel. With i915 as module, system boots up fine, but becomes blank as
>> soon as the module is loaded.
>>
>> Reverting it solves the problem. Problem only happens only Dell Optiplex
>> 780 with external LCD. But, works fine on Lenovo X201s internal LCD.
>
>> commit cfecde435dda78248d6fcdc424bed68d5db6be0b
>
> I imagine this is the same as the problem reported here:
>
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/2/249
>

Nick,

That right. It's the same problem.

Thanks,
Jeff
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