I seem to be having this problem on a Lenovo X201 with i5-540, Lucid 64
bit.
I swapped over to Xorg from deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-
edgers/ppa/ubuntu but that doesn't seem to be helping. As with the
original bug report it seems to be frequent with high video activity.
Last week I had it c
Thomas, Your patch solves the problem for me too. Typing this from a
machine running with the new drivers...
DAVE
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[lucid] Blank screen with KMS on Thinkpad X201 with Arrandale (i915)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554569
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Datapoint; With latest X201 BIOS (BIOS: 1.14 / ECP: 1.08/1.08) from
lenovo I can get i915 driver working on the external display by removing
the modeset and vesa elements from the kernel command line. I also get
full effects etc. and i915 is in use according to lsmod. This is using
'stock' 64 bit 2
