Blank screen with Intel 945GM and modesetting branch

[Eric Anholt]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 12:07 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> I can't get the modesetting branch to work on my laptop - Dell Latitude
> D820 with 945GM. xf86-video-i810 1.7.2 works fine (together with
> 915resoultion).
> 
> The X server starts up, seems to detect the resolution of the internal
> flatpanel (1920x1200) and doesn't crash but the screen just remains
> black - backlight is on, though. When I attach an external TFT monitor
> (1024x768) via VGA connector, I see the top left part of the screen on
> the external monitor, i.e. 1024x768 out of 1920x1200) but the internal
> flatpanel is still black.
> 
> I've first tried with Xorg 7.1 and updated libdrm and modesetting
> driver. The symptoms are the same as when using git/cvs version of
> xorg-server and mesa, too. I've also tested it on x86 and x86_64. I
> haven't yet tried it with anything than Linux 2.6.18.1, though.
> 
> Any hints how I can get this to work or how I can help debugging the
> cause of the problem?

Sounds like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6942 -- this
needs to get fixed.

-- 
Eric Anholt                             anholt at FreeBSD.org
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com
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