[ubuntu-za] Video problems with 11.04

[frans]

On 11/04/29 12:42 PM, Robin Bownes wrote:
> I have just upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 on my Acer Aspire 5332. I 
> have never before had any driver or hardware issues with this notebook 
> and the various releases of Ubuntu that I've used on it.
>
> The upgrade went smoothly enough. However, on rebooting into 11.04, my 
> screen went black just before the login screen. I could still hear the 
> sounds that indicated the loading of the login screen, and was even 
> able to login blind, and heard the sounds indicating the loading of 
> the desktop, etc. However, my screen remained black.
>
> The only way the I can see what I'm doing in 11.04, is to access the 
> Grub boot menu on bootup (hold Shift) and then select one of the 
> previous/earlier versions. Everything then works fine.
>
> In other words, if I boot using 2.6.38-8-generic (the default), my 
> screen goes, and remains black, even though everything else seems to 
> be working OK.
>
> In order to see what's happening on my screen I must boot from either:
> 2.6.35-28-generic
> or
> 2.6.32-25-generic
>
> Any assistance would be most appreciated. Please keep in mind, when 
> providing such assistance, that I'm not a Linux boffin.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Robin 
Have you tried to plug in an external display?
I had this on my desktop when using the secondary display port.

Try changing the laptop's display with the FN-F# key that have the 
screen icon on it. maybe it'll work

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  Google what you can't fake.
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