On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Chris Wilson wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:12:03 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day" rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Chris Wilson wrote:
The only missing detail is what connector is used for the display. Xorg.log or xrandr --verbose are the easiest.
i can supply those for the currently *successful* boot, is that what you're asking? because once we're into black screen territory, there's not a whole lot i can tell you.
Indeed. Fortunately the integrated hardware is unlikely to change between boots. But more interesting is if you can pin down the regressing commit.
this commit seems to be fine:
commit abb72c828878a2c69b2cfb33ac30007c8ecd735e Merge: 58bbf01 8e934db Author: Dave Airlie airlied@gmail.com Date: Tue Jan 25 08:41:58 2011 +1000
Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes-2' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke
* 'drm-intel-fixes-2' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ic drm/i915: Prevent uninitialised reads during error state capture drm/i915: Use consistent mappings for OpRegion between ACPI and i915 drm/i915: Handle the no-interrupts case for UMS by polling drm/i915: Disable high-precision vblank timestamping for UMS drm/i915: Increase the amount of defense before computing vblank timestamp drm/i915,agp/intel: Do not clear stolen entries Remove MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON BUILD_BUG_ON: make it handle more cases module: fix missing semicolons in MODULE macro usage param: add null statement to compiled-in module params module: fix linker error for MODULE_VERSION when !MODULE and CONFIG_SYSFS= module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs selinux: return -ENOMEM when memory allocation fails tpm: fix panic caused by "tpm: Autodetect itpm devices" TPM: Long default timeout fix trusted keys: Fix a memory leak in trusted_update(). keys: add trusted and encrypted maintainers encrypted-keys: rename encrypted_defined files to encrypted trusted-keys: rename trusted_defined files to trusted drm/i915: Recognise non-VGA display devices ...
so moving on to the very next one, which logic suggests would be the culprit. back shortly if time permits.
rday