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From: "James M. Leddy" <james.leddy@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: Intel black screen
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:43:00 -0500
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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.