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Blank screen after upgrading to ubuntu 11.04 on Mini HP 110

Asked by larienna

I have a Mini HP 110. I was using lately Ubuntu 10.04 and never upgraded because it was in LTS mode. I changed the mode to normal and I upgraded to 10.10. This version seemed to work correctly.

I did not test it much because I decided to upgrade again to 11.04. Now at boot up, I get a blank screen. In fact I can boot with grub and actually reach the login screen, but the login screen never get shown, it`s a black screen with a mouse. But I successfully logged in once by entering blindly my password and pressing enter. Still once logged in, the screen was still blank.

Now I search various solutions on the net and none of them works:

Kernel problem: Some said that booting with an older kernel could solve the problem. But the kernel was never changed during the upgrade process, so that cannot be the problem.

Graphic card driver: Some people say that there is a problem with the graphic cards and the driver (which is probably the problem). Various solutions tested so far:

- add "VGA=792" to the grub command line: Grub tells me that this option is obsolete and it does not solve the problem.

- Boot in safe mode and repair packages: There seems to be nothing to repair

- Boot in safe mode and run X windows in safe mode: X windows fails to run in safe mode.

- clear /etc/x11/"xorg.conf": the file does not seem to exist, I only found something like "xorg.conf.failsafe" (don't remember exactly the name)

- Add new graphic driver with "System-Administration-drivers": The problem is that I cannot boot in graphic mode (even safe), so how can I use the GUI to change the graphic driver. Can it be done from the command line?

By the way, I think my graphic cards is a Intel GFX 950.

Any other ideas?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

add the boot option:

nomodeset

May help

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larienna (ericp-ariel) said : 		#2

I tried the "nomodeset" and it partially works. I needed to switch terminal to make the login screen re-appear, and it force me to run in classic mode which was not configured at all but I found a way to add the start menu.

It's runs fine as a "Safe mode" to setup my graphic card, but not to run permanently. Also my network connection (wireless) does not work any more. I did not test cable connections.

I tried to see if I could use "System-Administration-Additional Drivers" to see if I could install some drivers and it does not find any thing because this dialog seems only for proprietary drivers. But I never used any proprietary drivers for my graphic card.

I did not really understood how the driver system worked in linux, so I have no idea if I need to install a package, change some config files, etc.

Else, is there a way to downgrade back to 10.04. Everything was running fine on that version. I never thought that upgrading would hinder myself badly. I could wait for 12.04 before upgrading again.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

I always clean install, fewer issues. Could have tried that instead. Lucid is fully supported and developed for so is no bad thing

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larienna (ericp-ariel) said : 		#4

The problem is that I loose all my configuration if I reinstall from scratch.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

No as you will have the configs backed up......don't you?

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BenginM (sary) said : 		#6

Salutation .

cant tell where you left off , is it solved ?

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