Comment 8 for bug 561802
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| Tim (tim-titley) wrote Re: [lucid] [i915] blank screen on Latitude E6410 | #8 |
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(Get the code!)
I've installed again using the alternative cd (no graphics mode) and the install went okay. I then booted it using the recovery option (from grub) and chose the "resume" option which gave me a login prompt. I then used aptitude to remove gdm.
My laptop boots successfully to a login prompt. I can then login and try to run X using startx which causes the machine to lock up completely with a blank screen. (There isn't any response from the network - can't even ping.) I tried setting the various nomodeset and i915.modeset=0 kernel options (in all the combinations) to no avail. I even unloaded the i915 module and blacklisted it which made no difference.
This leads me to believe that it is not a problem with the i915 kernel module......
I then created a default xorg.conf (using Xorg -configure) and tried disabling all the modules, and setting various options again, to no avail. I'll keep you posted if I find anything.