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11.10 Display help !!! White horizontal lines

Asked by Jeremy Strubinger

Fixing a emprex bnb-1021 for a friend. She received the notebook about a year ago used it for approximatly a month and did an update for ubuntu and it crashed the computer. flash forward to today. I put ubuntu on a usb drive and installed 11.10 Fresh but upon reboot It has white horizontal lines on the screen and what I can see in the background looks big. I can hook up an external monitor and reboot the computer and everything looks fine except there is no pointer on the notebook screen. I can unhook the monitor from the notebook and still no pointer. reboot and the white lines are back. I am new to ubuntu and not sure what is causing this. the notebook is usless if an external monitor has to be hooked too it. any ideas ??

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you press CTRL+ALT+T you will start a terminal and can run commands there. Get the system hooked up to the web and run:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade; sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

Then try rebooting, may help the situation to get fully updated. If not then try adding the boot option:

nomodeset

This may help

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