Hmmm.... Today I tried booting up again and it went back to the "black screen of death" with nothing more than a blinking cursor in the top left corner. I shut down, and booted it up again and it got the login screen. The behaviour seems random.
So, to conclude, it seems that the problem is not yet solved, despite the BIOS update. Shame. P.S. (FYI - I have now got a new problem though -- my battery reports it to be at 84%, but in windows this is 100%. So there appears to be some miscommunication between my hardware and xubuntu/kernel. Fan also seems a little more active than it was..........sigh - something for a seperate new bug report....so much for a BIOS "update"). Regards Christopher -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1214638 Title: [Asus UX31A] Linux 3.8.0-27 & Linux 3.8.0-29 render system unbootable with "black screen of death" Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Ever since upgrading to xubuntu 13.04 (from 12.10), my system has been experiencing start up failures resulting in a "black screen of death" with nothing but a blinking cursor in the top left corner. This happened every so often, and despite it being immensely annoying, I could "live" with it. However, upgrading to linux 3.8.0-27 resulted in a totally unbootable system. It fails repeatedly and NEVER succeeds. I persistently arrive at the aforementioned "black screen of death". I had hoped that upgrading to linux 3.8.0-29 might have fixed the problem...alas it did not. So I am still unable to boot into my system. Only by selecting linux 3.8.0-26 under advanced options in GRUB does it let me arrive at the lightdm login screen...but please note that, as I had said above, even this suffers from the occassional "black screen of death". The problem has thus existed since upgrading to raring 13.04, but has ultimately failed resulting in an unbootable system in linux 3.8.0-27 & 3.8.0-29. I hope the above helps. I would be grateful if someone could please tell me if this bug will be fixed within raring or if it must wait until saucy arrives? Regards, Christopher ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: linux-image-3.8.0-26-generic 3.8.0-26.38 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: christopher 2317 F.... volumeicon Date: Wed Aug 21 00:22:40 2013 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=4a9691f1-20d6-4e42-bffd-d4dbe3ed18cf InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-12 (250 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1) MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. UX31A MarkForUpload: True ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-26-generic root=UUID=b25cb360-b179-400a-a007-244ec031fe0b ro quiet splash add_efi_memmap i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 pcie_aspm=force drm.vblankoffdelay=1 i915.semaphores=1 nmi_watchdog=0 vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.8.0-26-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.8.0-26-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.106 SourcePackage: linux StagingDrivers: rts5139 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-26 (116 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 10/02/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: UX31A.215 dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567 dmi.board.name: UX31A dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.chassis.version: 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrUX31A.215:bd10/02/2012:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnUX31A:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnUX31A:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0: dmi.product.name: UX31A dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1214638/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
