[ubuntu-za] Video problems with 11.04

[Robin Bownes]

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
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