Bug 11696 - black screen of death on very new i915 machines
Summary: black screen of death on very new i915 machines
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Backlund
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Keywords: NEEDINFO, Triaged
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Reported: 2013-11-18 12:48 CET by Joseph Wang
Modified: 2015-05-19 14:30 CEST (History)
1 user (show)

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Source RPM: kernel, x11-driver-video-intel
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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.

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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
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