it6251 does not stabilize

The LCD on my Novena does not show anything. The backlight is on, and I'm able to see the UI on an external monitor connected over HDMI. Diggiging around in dmesg shows it6251 does not stabilize. Here's the output of "dmesg | grep it6251"

[   20.980215] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   20.982442] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   20.984674] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   20.986900] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   20.989127] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   20.991357] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   20.993591] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   20.995819] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   20.998046] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   21.000271] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   21.002499] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   21.004726] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   21.006952] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   21.009177] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   21.011404] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   21.013639] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x17
[   21.015869] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x13
[   21.016095] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0x14
[   21.016102] it6251 2-005c: RPCLKCnt: 4095
[   21.016328] it6251 2-005c: Error -5 reading from subaddress 0xd
[   21.016334] it6251 2-005c: System status: 0xffffffff
[   21.016798] it6251 2-005c: Clock: 0xfff
[   21.017033] it6251 2-005c: Ref Link State: 0xffffffff
[   21.017039] it6251 2-005c: Display didn't stabilize.  This may be because the LVDS port is still in powersave mode.
[   21.017044] it6251 2-005c: Too many retries, abandoning.