[Bug 431812] Re: i915: black screen on boot

[joeclarkia]

It seems like three questions need to be answered:
 * What is the root cause?
 * When will it be fixed?
 * What are the workarounds in the meantime?

For workarounds: this bug is specific to certain Intel graphics
chipsets, right?  If the list of bad chipsets can be determined, then
the installer/updater could "blacklist" those and automatically add the
i915.modeset=0 to the grub configuration if necessary -- correct?
That's probably not as great of a solution as actually fixing the
problem, but at least it would make these offending computers usable
without "user hacking".

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i915: black screen on boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431812
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