Well... it actually took you a new distro release to upgrade the kernel to a new (minor) version. I have upgraded my broken and almost forgotten ubuntu installation to 11.04 via the safe graphics mode. I was kind of hoping the new kernel would fix these problems, but after rebooting I was greeted with the same old vertical bars on my screen.
So after growing tired of this glitch I simply formatted my HDD and reinstalled ubuntu 11.04 from an installation CD. The live CD was able to boot fine into the Gnome desktop (I clicked the Try button) and then after doing a backup I reinstalled the OS by overwriting the old one. Next I did a reboot with fingers crossed aaaaand... black screen! The screen turns dark purple upon boot and then the LCD backlight powers off for some reason, leaving me with a completely black screen. None of the controls seem to be responding, so I had to cycle power to restart my laptop. Recovery mode seems broken too, but here the screen backlight at least stays on, and I can at reboot the computer the ctrl-alt-del way. There is no prompt, the booting process just freezes. I am sorry, but this operating system seems to be broken :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675765 Title: Screen corrupted after boot (white vertical bars) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
