[Bug 102712] Re: black screen or garbled graphics on boot

2008-03-07 Thread cwhamsun
Check out thinkwiki.org . It is about thinkpads and linux. They have pages on which models have particular issues. I cannot provide any feedback about my thinkpad cuz it died. To be more precise, it seems to be on and the screen does not work any longer. Something fried, I am guessing the graphics

Re: [Bug 102712] Re: black screen or garbled graphics on boot

2007-09-28 Thread cwhamsun
Thanks, I found out it is an issue with my graphics card on my model of laptop.There is some kind of design flaw that causes things to malfunction sometimes. Thanks for the suggestion though Need a vacat

Re: [Bug 102712] Re: black screen or garbled graphics on boot

2007-08-03 Thread cwhamsun
I looked at my grub options and they are standard. No extra stuff, whatever the installer picks, nothing changed by me. Dual boot with windows xp pro. I have a laptop though so no video settings, I am not sure if a desktop would add the video by default or not. I have vga=xxx settings on my desktop

[Bug 102712] black screen or garbled graphics on boot

2007-04-03 Thread cwhamsun
Public bug reported: Have been using feisty with no issues on this laptop for quite some time. I did not use the laptop for a week or so, but Mon. apr. 2 ran updates which prompted action about a partial dist. upgrade , which went through ok. First reboot progress bar underneath logo immediately a