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Comment 146 for bug 561802

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newgen (newgen23) wrote : Re: [i915] blank screen on Latitude E6410

I can confirm this problem.
Using:
uname -a:
Linux laptop 2.6.35-02063504-generic #201008271919 SMP Fri Aug 27 19:22:15 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lspci:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
/etc/issue:
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Laptop: Latitude E6410

However: The installed kernel was supposed to fix the problem. We have two laptops of the same type. On one laptop, the current kernel (2.6.35-02063504) fixes the problem and the laptop boots into X. On my laptop, it boots and the screen stays blank.
When I connected the hdmi connector with a monitor, I get an X screen on the external monitor as well as on the LCD of the laptop. But after I disabled the hdmi output, there is no way to get the X running properly. From the logs it seems that it boots into X, and switching (in blank screen mode) with ctrl+alt+f1 to console and press ctrl-alt-del reboots the machine. Therefore we assume that the machine is responsive and working, while the screen stays blank. We also evaluate this problem for our department, but since the i915 seems to have the same problem on machines with other hardware and intel grafic cards, this problem remains very important to us.

testing 2.6.36 now...