You have been subscribed to a public bug: we must use i915 with modesetting, because else the hdmi-audio isn't available.
enabling modesetting, the monitor went black immediately after dmesg: fb: switching to inteldrmfb from EFI VGA Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25 [drm] Replacing VGA console driver for this bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105549 there seems to be a patch available which doesn't seem to be integrated in last available xenial-kernel 4.15.0-33-generic. please integrate it in next kernel-update. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- missing patch for i915 in 4.15.0-33-generic => black screen on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792144 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp