Am 08.07.2010 09:56, schrieb Philipp:
> Hey,
> I have this problem since a while but it got a lot worse with the last
> two kernel versions. Now there's an about 50/50 chance to see the user
> login or simply not see it. I don't have any login manager set up, so
> after boot there's simply the user login and after that I issue startx.
> It all works just fine,even if I can't see a thing, and once I issued
> startx everything goes back to normal, the screen isn't blank anymore.
> 
> The machine has an Intel chipset, and I guess it's related to that
> and/or KMS, but that's as far as my guess goes.
> 
> Maybe one of you knows something about that kind of issue?
> 

You need to save the dmesg output of a failed and a successful boot and
compare them.

Note that the DRM/KMS driver seems to initialize fine - otherwise,
starting Xorg would fail entirely (Intel's Xorg driver depends on it).

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