Comment 78 for bug 431812

hello
yes you are right and rught here
you have to do this, because this big bug is not fixed before release,
and not till now.
you have to edit with admin right your grub config (kernel init
parameters) that you can use an intel graphic card with ubuntu 9.10

jochen

Markus Schuster schrieb:
> I'm suffering from this problem, too. I've upgraded to Kubuntu 9.10 today. I'm running Kubuntu on a Fujitsu Stylistic ST5021 tablet pc (Intel 855GM).
> My problem looks like the following: The kernel loads, it looks like the system would reach the initramfs, then the screen goes black, the harddisk shows some activity for maybe 5 to 10 seconds, then the system freezes completely (still black screen). The freeze seems to happen at kernel level as the systems responds to maybe 1 or 2 ping packets from the outside, then silence forever. Num lock or caps lock leds are dead at this moment.
> Im running 2.6.31-16-generic - with old 2.6.28-17-generic the system is able to boot up.
> The system is also able to boot up if I append one of the following kernel parameters:
> - nomodeset
> - i915.modeset=0
>
> Am I right here or should I open a new bug for the linux-image-...
> package?
>
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