Comment 199 for bug 541511

@pvanderploeg,
I have the same issue with my D400 with the same graphics card. I just tried the workaround listed in posts #33 and #34 in the following thread, and it worked for me (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1465883&page=4).

Basically, what I did was as follows:

Step 1: When booting into the live CD, I pressed Tab, and added the i915.modeset=1 option to the boot command line.
Refer to thread/post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9203466&postcount=33

Step 2: I installed Lucid with no problems, but when restarted, I of course ran into the same boot issue. So, I needed to make the changes in step 1 permanent.

Step 3: I restarted into the live environment again (as in step 1), mounted my local root partition, and as root, did two things in the /etc/ directory.
  a) permanently added "i915 modeset=1" (w/o quotes) to the grub configuration file (/etc/default/grub).
 Refer to thread/post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9171045&postcount=11 (as redirected from http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9203466&postcount=34)

 b)created the configuration file /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf and added the line "options i915 modeset=1" (w/o quotes) according to the first workaround listed in this thread:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes

And it now everything works. Finally. And life is good again. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me through launchpad. Although I am not an expert, I can at least explain what worked for me, although I couldn't tell you why. :)
 ~Elena