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From: "James M. Leddy" <james.leddy@canonical.com>
To: "Paulo J. Matos" <paulo@matos-sorge.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Intel black screen
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:43:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBC4564.8050002@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j9gm3s$u2d$1@dough.gmane.org>

On 11/10/2011 09:12 AM, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got a new PC DELL Vostro 360. This is an all-in-one which uses the
> Optimus setup. An intel GT1 (Sandybridge) couples with an Nvidia 525m.
> Ubuntu out of the box shows a black screen unless I add nomodeset to
> kernel options.

That sounds a lot like this bug:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42278

It can be worked around by using vesafb instead of i915.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-10 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-10 14:12 Intel black screen Paulo J. Matos
2011-11-10 21:43 ` James M. Leddy [this message]
2011-11-11 19:08   ` valent.turkovic
2011-11-17 13:03   ` Paulo J. Matos
2011-11-11 16:30 ` Adam Jackson
2011-11-14 19:48   ` Paulo J. Matos

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