Ubuntu turns display off while booting on Lenovo y580

[Grzegorz Galezowski]

Hi, I purchased y580 in the following configuration recently (sorry for Polish language, but I couldn't find the exact same configuration anywhere else):

http://www.euro.com.pl/laptopy-i-netbooki/lenovo-ideapad-y580-i7-3630-4gb-1tb-gtx660-2gb-w8.bhtml#opis

and tried to boot Ubuntu 13.04 using live USB. The effect was (despite trying with EFI boot and legacy option) the OS to turn off the display just after the GRUB screen.

I didn't give up and my next try was to check with Ubuntu 12.10 - and the live USB booted. After installing 12.10 I proceeded to upgrade to 13.04 (the only thing I did inbetween was install all updates to the default installation of 12.10) and after the upgrade, Ubuntu was once again turning off the display after grub screen.

While investigating what's wrong, I tried to boot with 3.5 kernel that was left from my 12.10 installation and it worked, so I guess this has something to do with 3.8 kernel (maybe 3.8 tries to use my Nvidia card, since 3.5 kernel does not use it at all?). Just to try if things have not improved in 3.9 kernel, I installed it from the packages in Ubuntu Saucy archives. The result was still turned off display.

So to sum up, I must currently use 13.04 with 3.5 kernel and if not going through Ubuntu 12.10 upgrade, I would not be able to install Ubuntu on my machine at all...

[Grzegorz Galezowski (spectral)]

Looks like this is a duplicate of #1099204. Can anyone mark it as duplicate of the said issue?

[Matt Heard (f-matt-deactivatedaccount)]

I am filing this as "plymouth (Ubuntu)" because this seems to be a issue with booting and the splash screen.

(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage#During_boot)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Grzegorz Galezowski, could you please confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . If the issue remains, could you please run the following command in Quantal from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available (not the daily folder) following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue.Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags:
kernel-fixed-upstream
kernel-fixed-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

where VERSION-NUMBER is the version number of the kernel you tested. For example:
kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.12

This can be done by clicking on the yellow circle with a black pencil icon next to the word Tags located at the bottom of the bug description. As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the following tags:
kernel-bug-exists-upstream
kernel-bug-exists-upstream-VERSION-NUMBER

As well, please remove the tag:
needs-upstream-testing

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug's Status as Confirmed. Please let us know your results. Thank you for your understanding.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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