[ubuntu-za] Video problems with 11.04

[Quintin van Rooyen]

On 29 Apr 2011 2:20 PM, "Robin Bownes" <robinbownes at afrihost.co.za> wrote:
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> On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 12:58 +0200, frans wrote:
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>> On 11/04/29 12:42 PM, Robin Bownes wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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
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>>> Any assistance would be most appreciated. Please keep in mind, when
providing such assistance, that I'm not a Linux boffin.
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>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Robin
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>> Have you tried to plug in an external display?
>> I had this on my desktop when using the secondary display port.
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>> 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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>> --
>> When working on a computer you have to know enough:
>>  To fake what you don't know.
>>  Google what you can't fake.
>>  How (and when) to 'motivate' the computer to do what Google won't tell.
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> Thanks for the quick response Frans. However, unfortunately, I don't have
an external display to plug into the notebook. I have tried using the
display swap key, but it has no effect what-so-ever.
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> Any other suggestions from anyone? Please.
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> Robin
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too lazy to google, but look up appending nacpi or other boot options to
your grub boot parameters.

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