Re: intel drmkms

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

[an update]

I wrote:
>Taylor R Campbell wrote:
>>   Date: Mon,  8 Sep 2014 12:47:52 +0100 (BST)
>>   From: Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>
>>
>>   I'm still getting a blank console display at boot with i386 on a 915GM,
>>   sources from today.
>>
>>I have an uncommitted workaround for a similar problem on an i945GM,
>>which is to restore the call to i915_disable_vga in intel_modeset_init
>>(sys/external/bsd/drm2/dist/drm/intel_display.c) and remove the call
>>in intelfb_setconfig_task (sys/external/bsd/drm2/i915drm/intelfb.c).
>>Can you try that and let me know whether it works?
>
>Doesn't make any difference, other than stopping console output sooner.
>
>Maybe "blank display" is the wrong description. The backlight is
>turned on brightly then slowly fades to a pattern of narrow vertical
>lines.
>
>I can start X11 and it doesn't report any errors but nothing happens
>on the display.

I tried plugging an external monitor into this laptop and it worked
fine, including detecting the correct resolution to use, the
resolution listed for intelfb0 was wrong when just using the built in
LCD.