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X broken in karmic for i915 8086:2572 (rev 02)

Asked by Kim Tyler

screen goes black during boot process - no X, no console, no tty. System still running.

kernel line with "acpi=ht noapic nolapic single"gives console and ttys, but need to startx which works OK

kernel line with "acpi=ht noapic nolapic" causes X to keep crashing and restarting with no login, just displaying X splash

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/beta#Known%20issues

"Some users with Intel video chipsets will experience a black screen on reboot after install because the fbcon module is not being loaded. As a workaround, users can boot with the i915.modeset=0 option. Investigation of this issue is ongoing."

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431812

Hope this helps

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Kim Tyler (ktyler) said : 		#2

Thanks marcobra (Marco Braida), that solved my question.