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

[Alan Bell]

I don't think I can take much credit for this one! you looked in the
right place and solved it yourself I think

Alan.
ian pettitt wrote:
> 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
>