I have changed the status of this bug because I am now using the computer which originally was giving me problems and it is now working fine. I upgraded to Xubuntu 12.04 and everything works perfectly out of the box. I upgraded with a Live CD from Ubuntu 10.10 to Xubuntu 12.04 and had no problems whatsoever. The upgrade allowed me to keep my old files and settings and was rather quick and painless. To anyone who might have had problems with the 11.04 release, I strongly recommend upgrading to 12.04 and you should have a good, solid working system in no time. I initially tried Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity) with a Live CD and although the screen wasn't completely blank as before(11.04), it was still pretty hard to see anything. However, with Ubuntu 12.04 I could at least switch to a terminal session, which I couldn't do before--that's why I was never able to submit any sort of bug report, because with 11.04 NOTHING was working, not even a terminal to get apport to gather the bug report. So after noticing some improvement with Ubuntu 12.04 I figured I'd try Xubuntu 12.04 which uses the Xfce Desktop environment and is quite a bit more compatible with older hardware than Unity is. After noticing that my old PC was responding well to the Xubuntu 12.04 Live CD , I decided to perform the upgrade. The upgrade worked well and as I stated before, it was also very quick. I am now writing this with the PC that originally had problems with 11.04 and it is obviously working very well with 12.04. I don't claim to know what the cause was, but my guess is that it might have had to do with the (old) Linux Kernel's problems with Power Management from a year ago. Whatever the cause might have been, I can very honestly say that everything has been fixed and it is all working fine. So I hope this helps anyone. Try upgrading to 12.04 and everything should work out of the box (try a Live CD first, just to make sure). Thanks to everyone who tried to help with this bug.
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