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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:44 pm    Post subject: Randomly getting black screens on bootup Reply with quote

The console randomly becomes black during startup. I believe this is due to having both
an Intel and AMD graphics card.

I've compiled the Intel device driver into the kernel, with modesetting.
But not the radeon driver to avoid conflicts with fglrx.

I've pasted my kernel config here http://bpaste.net/show/50551/

I've setup support for VGA switcheroo, but the device doesn't seem to be created in /sys.

Thanks in advance
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not sure you can have more than one card enabled at a time. Have you tried turning one of them off in the BIOS?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry yeah, they can't be enabled both at once, it's called 'switchable graphics' apparently.
There aren't any BIOS settings unfourtunately.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does it work if you have only one graphics driver? The phrasing of your first post implies that you are attempting to use both the open Intel driver and the proprietary AMD driver.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Even with fglrx blacklisted i still randomly get black screens at startup which is really frustrating!
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've enabled a framebuffer, and found there seems to be a bug when the intel driver is loading which sometimes seems to make the display go blank.

Weirdly if you load i915, fglrx and X straight away the display then works.

#!/bin/bash
sudo insmod /lib/modules/3.4.9-gentoo/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko
sudo modprobe fglrx
startxfce4

But I don't think this is an especially good solution.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you encountering the following dmesg alert?

Code:
[Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness


If so, your issue could be the same as described here
Moreover, if that's the case, there where proposed some workarounds
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