I don't think I can take much credit for this one! you looked in the right place and solved it yourself I think
Alan. ian pettitt wrote: > Thanks Alan - I think you have solved it! > > Looking through the bugs I found this: > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+question/85648 > > Adding i915.modeset=0 to the boot options fixed it! > > This is something that is mentioned in the beta release notes > http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/beta#Known%20issues > > I have spent most of the morning booting it up and checking the > /var/log/Xorg.0.log etc., looking at the bugs in Launchpad, check the > forums before posting to this list. There are quite a few forum threads > on ubuntuforums.org with people posting a similar problem. > > Hopefully this will get sorted quickly as the Dell I have is a very > "standard" system (you could even get in PC World) and I was > disappointed to see the latest Ubuntu not work with it straight away. > > However, I asked the question to right people, and got the answer almost > immediately - for that you have to love the open source community :-) > > Thanks Again > > Ian > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
