linux-kernel - Re: i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

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Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:29:56 -0800
From:	Chris Li <lkml@...isli.org>
To:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, robert.moore@...el.com,
	feng.tang@...el.com, len.brown@...el.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch> wrote:
> vgaarb is just about legacy VGA access routing, gpu switching is done
> with vgaswitcheroo (if you have such a platform). Still, it could be
> that the bios exposes different such interfaces with the differen acpi
> os name. Can you please check the dmesg of a working kernel (or attach
> it)?

It still sound odd that in the middle of the i915 modeset, the legacy VGA
access transfer to the Nvidia video card. I look at the 3.6 kernel there
is no such print out from vgaarb.

Here it is the dmesg from the FC18 live CD kernel. No black screen.

Chris

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