Bug 11696

Summary: black screen of death on very new i915 machines
Product: Mageia Reporter: Joseph Wang <joequant>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: Normal CC: thierry.vignaud
Version: CauldronKeywords: NEEDINFO, Triaged
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: kernel, x11-driver-video-intel CVE:
Status comment:

Description Joseph Wang 2013-11-18 12:48:10 CET 
Description of problem:

After I install mageia 4 on my Aspire V5-573P, and reboot everything goes black.  This seems to be the result of a well known issue with laptops that is explained here....

http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html

I'll try to use different boot up flags to see what is the set that allows everything to work fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Mageia on Aspire V5-573P
2. reboot 
3. screen goes black


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Manuel Hiebel 2013-12-22 13:22:20 CET

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2015-04-22 20:51:53 CEST 
Is this better with latest cauldron?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-19 14:30:25 CEST 
the Intel driver & the kernel DRM have been improved quite a lot since

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Component: Installer => RPM Packages
Resolution: (none) => OLD
Source RPM: kernel => kernel, x11-driver-video-intel