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[DrSQL <issnational@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The last update from Ubuntu fixed the issue for me.

Thanks,


On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 00:39 +0000, Paul Stevens wrote:
> This problem seems to be based in Kernel Mode Select and the hardware
> involved. Bug report 288807 talks about some hardware issues with Sony
> laptops and that may be in effect here. I believe KMS is now on by
> default in Karmic for Intel devices.
> 
> To get the system fixed was fairly simple in the end and only requires
> updating Grub to turn off KMS. I am using Grub2 on this install.
> 
> On a live cd boot, use F6 to edit grub. 
> Remove “splash” and replace with “nomodeset”. 
> I included “--xdriver=intel” on my system as bootup seemed smoother with this added.
> Splash does not work with nomodeset so it needs to be removed.
> 
> On an installed system, edit /etc/default/grub to remove splash and add
> the ‘nomodeset xdriver=intel” line and then update grub.
> 
> gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
> 
> Change the line:
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”
> 
> To this:
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=” nomodeset xdriver=intel”
> 
> The “quiet” option may work but I did not use it. The “xdriver=intel”
> was correct for my system.
> 
> Then run:
> Sudo update-grub
> 
> Note, I did not need to have any xorg.conf in the system to get it
> working. There did not seem to be any difference whether it was there or
> not.
> 
> It might be good to have a fallback “nomodeset” option as a standard
> part of the grub menu till KMS can develop a way to deal with this
> hardware.
>

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