Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-19 Thread Chris Li
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Jani Nikula wrote: > I've never used the acpi_osi= kernel parameter, but it looks like you > could workaround this with acpi_osi="!Windows 2012". Please check that > running the "bad" kernel. I find out that I just can't set the acpi_osi="!Windows 2012" properly

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-19 Thread Chris Li
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Jani Nikula jani.nik...@linux.intel.com wrote: I've never used the acpi_osi= kernel parameter, but it looks like you could workaround this with acpi_osi=!Windows 2012. Please check that running the bad kernel. I find out that I just can't set the

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-15 Thread Chris Li
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Jani Nikula wrote: > Fun. The BIOS seems to ask for zero backlight. Maybe it means something > else for Windows 8. White is the new black or something. I did some experiment, I go to intel_backlight directory. It show brightness is 4648, but actual_brightness

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-15 Thread Chris Li
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Jani Nikula wrote: > I've never used the acpi_osi= kernel parameter, but it looks like you > could workaround this with acpi_osi="!Windows 2012". Please check that > running the "bad" kernel. That did not work for me. Still have black screen on the tip of git. I

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-15 Thread Jani Nikula
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Chris Li wrote: > Hi, I attach the two demsg and with and without the bad commit > on the intel nightly branch. Without the bad commit it actually works. > However, on the tip of intel nightly. the moeset work around does not work > there any more. Hi Chris, thanks for the

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-15 Thread Jani Nikula
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Chris Li l...@chrisli.org wrote: Hi, I attach the two demsg and with and without the bad commit on the intel nightly branch. Without the bad commit it actually works. However, on the tip of intel nightly. the moeset work around does not work there any more. Hi Chris,

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-15 Thread Chris Li
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Jani Nikula jani.nik...@linux.intel.com wrote: I've never used the acpi_osi= kernel parameter, but it looks like you could workaround this with acpi_osi=!Windows 2012. Please check that running the bad kernel. That did not work for me. Still have black screen

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-15 Thread Chris Li
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Jani Nikula jani.nik...@linux.intel.com wrote: Fun. The BIOS seems to ask for zero backlight. Maybe it means something else for Windows 8. White is the new black or something. I did some experiment, I go to intel_backlight directory. It show brightness is

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-14 Thread Chris Li
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Jani Nikula wrote: > Interesting snippets from your dmesgs: > > 1) good > > [0.00] Linux version 3.6.0-rc6+ (chr...@ideapad.lan) (gcc version > 4.7.2 20121109 (Red Hat 4.7.2-8) (GCC) ) #25 SMP Wed Feb 20 12:55:06 PST 2013 > ... > [5.341431]

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-14 Thread Chris Li
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Jani Nikula jani.nik...@linux.intel.com wrote: Interesting snippets from your dmesgs: 1) good [0.00] Linux version 3.6.0-rc6+ (chr...@ideapad.lan) (gcc version 4.7.2 20121109 (Red Hat 4.7.2-8) (GCC) ) #25 SMP Wed Feb 20 12:55:06 PST 2013 ... [

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-11 Thread Jani Nikula
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013, Chris Li wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Chris Li wrote: Two things to test: - Can you please check whether any of the backlight drivers in /sys/class/backlight does anything? You need to frob the brightness file. Please also list all the drivers

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 black screen introduced by ACPI changes

2013-03-11 Thread Jani Nikula
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013, Chris Li l...@chrisli.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Chris Li l...@chrisli.org wrote: Two things to test: - Can you please check whether any of the backlight drivers in /sys/class/backlight does anything? You need to frob the brightness file. Please also list