[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 561802] Re: [lucid] [i915] blank screen on Latitude E6410

2010-05-27 Thread Douglas Berdeaux
@Todd Boss: It's here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/556872 I tried an external monitor and the graphics completely locked up, so for me that wasn't an option. The CAPs lock key still worked and usually on kernel panic my CAPs NUM lock lights blink in

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 556872] Re: [lucid] [nouveau] blank screen on Dell Latitude E6410 (NVS 3100M [10de:0a6c])

2010-05-25 Thread Douglas Berdeaux
[ FOUND WORK-AROUND ] I have it working. I simply hit ESC at the grub prompt and F6, then added the lines: xforcevesa i915.blacklist=true nouveau.modeset=0 nouveau blacklist=true before the "--" at the end of the parameters. After the installation, i rebooted and couldn't even pull up Grub - i

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 561802] Re: [lucid] [i915] blank screen on Latitude E6410

2010-05-14 Thread Douglas Berdeaux
@Aaron are you using the E6410? I tried for hours to get the Touchpad working correctly, I tried Editing /etc/X11/xorg.config changed from Mouse0 to Synaptics, added it to ServerLayout, Added 'Load "synaptics"' created HAL file: /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi enabled shared memory in my fstab

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 561802] Re: [lucid] [i915] blank screen on Latitude E6410

2010-05-10 Thread Douglas Berdeaux
@Radek - that works, i can confirm on a DELL e6410 with the NVIDIA 3100m, this works only with 9.10. When added to boot options in 10.04 system stays black/blank. (this was tested with install only environment and live environment). I have tried the last few versions of Ubuntu down to 8.x The sy