Comment 151 for bug 561802
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| mike rodent (cscupost) wrote Re: [i915] blank screen on Latitude E6410 | #151 |
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Thanks.
I tried with an external monitor once ... complete blackness, not a glimmer. May try again.
Random graphic freezes... hmm. Not encouraging if you want a serious system to finally replace the vileness of MS.
Is this sort of bug (if that's what it is) common with Ubuntu? I'm not clear whether this is the fault of the graphics chip manufacturers or what? Are Intel or Dell just not giving a monkeys whether their new hardware works with Linux? Or are they deliberately complicating things? Or is it somehow the fault of the people who put together Linux?
This is no doubt very naive of me, but aren't graphics chips meant to be designed to work in a sort of degraded mode, using a bog standard set of instructions...? If so, am I to conclude that the Ubuntu designers haven't really catered for this potential need? Or that there is no such simple operating mode with this Intel chip on the Dell machine?
The trouble is, display is SUCH an essential thing. If that goes wrong you are really stuffed from the start. Who should I blame?