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[BigBoi <mergus_j_alfonz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

i'm experiencing what i think is a similar a black/blank screen in
karmic after the ubuntu boot logo is finished on a dell studio xps 1340
laptop running a nvidia 9400m (+ 9200m but doesn't run due to no nvidia
hybrid sli support) with karmic 64-bit. It happened after the reboot
after installing about a 3 weeks of ubuntu updates (which i assume
includes the above). Though the screen is black i can use my keyboard to
login through the standard login screen and here all the standard ubuntu
login noises (though i can't actually see anything as the screen remains
blank). I can switch back to a text based login using ctrl + alt + f1
etc.

Also if i revert back to the nv driver the standard grpahical login
appears and everything works as per that driver. I've tried both nvidia
binary drivers 190.53 and 195.30 in the hope that it was a compatibility
issue with newer software installed in the ubuntu update but neither
worked. I tried going back through kernels 2.6.31-17-generic back to
2.6.31-14-generic but all kernels have the same problem.

Please let me know if and what additional information to provide to
assist resolving this issue.

Many thanks,

P.S. a few threads in the ubuntu forums that might relate to this issue (mainly speculation but no solutions as yet)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1375950
http://newyork.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349553

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Blank screen on startup, after 15 Jan 2010 updates
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507979
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