Comment 95 for bug 600453

I had the same experience as Christian with my E6510 with integrated intel gpu: I first installed Ubuntu 10.04 which worked fine, applied the updates and rebooted to a blank screen (with backlight if I remember correctly). Strangely enough, booting with the original kernel which worked fine before yielded also a blank screen.

I tried ubuntu 10.10 afterwards: the install CD gave a blank screen but using the nomodeset boot option I could install graphically but first boot resulted again in a blank screen. I tried several boot options (including nomodeset) without success.

I do not understand why the working graphics configuration *during* install is not used and can not be replicated *after* install.

A full description of my experience can be found here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9989861#post9989861