updates causing black screen

Many older laptops have the same problem; this also happens when starting live cd; this is a bad thing to promote linux ubuntu; also happens in Linux Mint and some other distros. Debian 5 has not this problem, neither Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10.

Thanks Sreve; will this be an automatic update?

best regards
Op maandag 05-07-2010 om 02:21 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Steve
Langasek:

> ** Package changed: grub (Ubuntu) => grub2 (Ubuntu)
>

If nomodeset is needed, it's a kernel bug, not a GRUB bug. Reassigning there so that the kernel team can look at it.

You can avoid having to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg every time by editing /etc/default/grub and changing this line:

  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

... to this:

  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

Then run 'sudo update-grub'. This will then automatically be applied on future kernel upgrades.

In fact, you might want to change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX rather than GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, so that nomodeset is added to recovery mode menu entries too.

Colin, thanks for the update; hopefully this will be repaired soon.

best regards

Sjoerd Ypma
Op maandag 05-07-2010 om 18:45 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Colin
Watson:

> In fact, you might want to change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX rather than
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, so that nomodeset is added to recovery mode
> menu entries too.
>

Hi sjoerdy,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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the latest kernel version installed; problem persists; need nomodeset in
grub.cfg to solve the problem of a black screen.
I am not an expert in basic linux structures; sorry:
Info generated:linux version 2.6.32-23-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc
version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11
07:54:58 UTC 2010 (Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5)

hope this will help

best regards, Sjoerd

Op dinsdag 06-07-2010 om 18:36 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Jeremy
Foshee:

> Hi sjoerdy,
>
> If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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>
> ** Tags added: needs-upstream-testing
>
> ** Tags added: kj-triage
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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Problem persists in latest kernel version.

best regards
Op donderdag 12-08-2010 om 03:56 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Jeremy
Foshee:

> This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated
> comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed.
> Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to
> provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen
> the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change
> the status back to "New". Thanks.
>
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>
> ** Tags added: kj-expired
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Expired
>

sjoerdy, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please do not test the kernel in the daily folder, but the one all the way at the bottom. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. As well, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested.

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream', and comment as to why specifically you were unable to test it.

Please let us know your results. Thanks in advance.

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