#16661: Intel 915GM video mode switching leaves laptop with black screen with
both
native and VESA drivers.
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Reporter: leppy232 | Owner: pulkomandy
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Drivers/Graphics/intel_extreme/9xx | Version: R1/beta2
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Platform: x86 |
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Comment (by leppy232):
Replying to [comment:5 pulkomandy]:
There is some confusion here. The shift-control-alt-escape does notswitch to the VESA driver. It just switches to a safe video mode (probably
the VESA driver, which is a completely different thing.
The "failsafe graphics driver" option in the boot menu does switch to
drivers fail in some way, it sounds a bit worrying. Are you sure the
If you're having graphics glitches to start with, and both of the
situations (make sure to delete the syslog from /system/var/log/syslog
For further investigation, please provide syslogs for the following
- Booting with the failsafe graphics driver enabled
- Booting normally, then changing the video mode