With stock boot params "quiet splash", the backlight comes on, but the screen is black almost immediately after hitting return in grub2. I can hear the GNOME sound when gdm starts up, so the machine is still running, but the screen stays black.
With boot param i915.modeset=0 I can see the kernel message text until X starts, then the screen goes black with the backlight still on, but the kernel panics and I see the two flashing numlock and capslock lights blinking. Machine is unresponsive.
The only kernel that allows me to boot into X so far is linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic-pae. All newer kernels exhibit the same behavior described above.
Dell Latitude E6410, Core i5, 4GB
BIOS A03
Intel Graphics (00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02))
Ubuntu 10.04
Kernels: 2.6.36- 020636rc3- generic_ 2.6.36- 020636rc3 2.6.35- 20-generic- pae 2.6.35-20.29~lucid1
linux-image-
linux-image-
With stock boot params "quiet splash", the backlight comes on, but the screen is black almost immediately after hitting return in grub2. I can hear the GNOME sound when gdm starts up, so the machine is still running, but the screen stays black.
With boot param i915.modeset=0 I can see the kernel message text until X starts, then the screen goes black with the backlight still on, but the kernel panics and I see the two flashing numlock and capslock lights blinking. Machine is unresponsive.
The only kernel that allows me to boot into X so far is linux-image- 2.6.32- 21-generic- pae. All newer kernels exhibit the same behavior described above.