I have a Acer Aspire 4736z with a new installation of natty i386 from iso and had a blank screen when booting without "nomodeset".
I managed to work around my issue by adding the modules i915.o, drm.o , drm_helper.o and video.o to the initrd and booting with the kernel parameter acpi=force . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779166 Title: Upgrade to version 11.04, disable the laptop display back light To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/779166/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs