I finally got my Dell X300 up to 10.04. I used the same fix as Van. The most trouble I had was trying to interrupt grub so I could edit the config. I had to hold down the shift key during a certain part of the boot. It was not one of the first twenty things I tried.<br>
...John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:25 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcpilman@gmail.com">jcpilman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I had the same experience with my Dell x300. I went back to 9.10, but<br>
IŽve been wanting to upgrade. Thanks for posting the fix. IŽll try<br>
it soon.<br>
...John<br>
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On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Van Loggins <<a href="mailto:vanloggins@gmail.com">vanloggins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> wanted to advise that I figured out the problem with a little help from<br>
> google.<br>
><br>
> I found the info on how to fix it here<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2010/05/06/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup-workaround/" target="_blank">http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2010/05/06/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup-workaround/</a><br>
><br>
> I had to edit grub and add i915.modeset=1 after quiet splash and now<br>
> it's working fine.<br>
><br>
><br>
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> On 6/19/2010 12:50 PM, Van Loggins wrote:<br>
>> I have a Gateway M320 that I wanted to put Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on<br>
>><br>
>> the problem is that something seems to have changed with Xorg in this<br>
>> version. for whatever reason the screen goes blank when it tries to<br>
>> start up x windows. I did a distribution upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04<br>
>> and everything seemed to go just fine. when it asked to reboot I let it.<br>
>><br>
>> When it came back up it went to a black screen as soon as X started.<br>
>> Whatever is causing it is so bad that I can't even get a console to<br>
>> pop up by pressing ctrl-F1,ctrl-f2,etc.<br>
>><br>
>> I downloaded the iso for 10.04 and tried to boot my laptop from it,<br>
>> and got the same problem, as soon as x starts it goes to a black screen.<br>
>><br>
>> does anyone know a workaround for this issue?<br>
>><br>
>> I'm going to download the alternate installer and try it next, but I'm<br>
>> not very hopeful at this point.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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