i915 is loaded just fine on your first journal log:
Mar 25 23:26:06 zlink2 kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20181204 for
0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
but it's happening after lightdm is started, so I'd say it's lightdm
which is just being too hasty
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Title:
lightdm login screen briefly appears and then blanks out on Intel(R)
Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5870 - failure to load i915 kernel module
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