[ubuntu-uk] No output on laptop screen after upgrading to Karmic

[ian pettitt]

Thanks Alan - I think you have solved it!

Looking through the bugs I found this:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+question/85648

Adding i915.modeset=0 to the boot options fixed it!

This is something that is mentioned in the beta release notes
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/beta#Known%20issues

I have spent most of the morning booting it up and checking the 
/var/log/Xorg.0.log etc., looking at the bugs in Launchpad, check the 
forums before posting to this list. There are quite a few forum threads 
on ubuntuforums.org with people posting a similar problem.

Hopefully this will get sorted quickly as the Dell I have is a very 
"standard" system (you could even get in PC World) and I was 
disappointed to see the latest Ubuntu not work with it straight away.

However, I asked the question to right people, and got the answer almost 
immediately - for that you have to love the open source community :-)

Thanks Again

Ian


Alan Bell wrote:
> do you get anything on screen as it boots? Does it get as far as the
> login screen when you have it installed?
> you could report a bug in xserver-xorg-video-intel
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel
> 
> there are probably clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log as to what is going on.
> 
> Alan.
> 
> ian pettitt wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop and have been running 9.04 
>> successfully since I bought it a couple of months ago.
>>
>> I've upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 and I can no longer use it - the system 
>> boots and gets to login screen, but since there is no display I can't 
>> use it! I reinstalled 9.04 and downloaded the 9.10 Live Cd, which has 
>> the same problem - the display is blank. It does detect an external 
>> monitor so I can see the output on that, but that isn't a very practical 
>> solution. Changing the display properties for the laptop screen doesn't 
>> make any difference, whatever I try I do not get any thing on the laptop 
>> screen.
>>
>> I am not sure how to fix this - i assumed that a Dell laptop would work 
>> "out of the box" with Karmic, but this isn't case for me.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ian
>>
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