do you get anything on screen as it boots? Does it get as far as the login screen when you have it installed? you could report a bug in xserver-xorg-video-intel https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel
there are probably clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log as to what is going on. Alan. ian pettitt wrote: > Hi > > I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop and have been running 9.04 > successfully since I bought it a couple of months ago. > > I've upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 and I can no longer use it - the system > boots and gets to login screen, but since there is no display I can't > use it! I reinstalled 9.04 and downloaded the 9.10 Live Cd, which has > the same problem - the display is blank. It does detect an external > monitor so I can see the output on that, but that isn't a very practical > solution. Changing the display properties for the laptop screen doesn't > make any difference, whatever I try I do not get any thing on the laptop > screen. > > I am not sure how to fix this - i assumed that a Dell laptop would work > "out of the box" with Karmic, but this isn't case for me. > > Thanks > > Ian > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
