[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#771227: eeepc: Black screen of death during boot

[hallvor brunstad]

Package: base
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I am not quite sure what package the problem is in, but I suspect it is the
integrated Intel graphics driver.

This started happening two days ago when I rebooted my netbook.

The backlight turns off some 15-20 seconds into the boot process. This happens
on some 90% of all boots. Other times it works normally without the screen going black.

I have tried setting "nomodeset" in Grub, and it works! The only problem is poor
resolution once the computer has booted.

It would be nice if the computer could boot without the backlight going out.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nn_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nn_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash