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Well... it actually took you a new distro release to upgrade the
kernel to a new (minor) version. I have upgraded my broken and almost
forgotten ubuntu installation to 11.04 via the safe graphics mode. I
was kind of hoping the new kernel would fix these problems, but after
rebooting I was greeted with the same old vertical bars on my screen.

So after growing tired of this glitch I simply formatted my HDD and
reinstalled ubuntu 11.04 from an installation CD. The live CD was able
to boot fine into the Gnome desktop (I clicked the Try button) and
then after doing a backup I reinstalled the OS by overwriting the old
one. Next I did a reboot with fingers crossed aaaaand... black screen!
The screen turns dark purple upon boot and then the LCD backlight
powers off for some reason, leaving me with a completely black screen.
None of the controls seem to be responding, so I had to cycle power to
restart my laptop. Recovery mode seems broken too, but here the screen
backlight at least stays on, and I can at reboot the computer the
ctrl-alt-del way. There is no prompt, the booting process just
freezes.


I am sorry, but this operating system seems to be broken :(

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Title:
  Screen corrupted after boot (white vertical bars)