I have a Acer Aspire 4736z with a new installation of natty i386 from iso and had a blank screen when booting without "nomodeset".
I managed to work around my issue by adding the modules i915.o, drm.o , drm_helper.o and video.o to the initrd and booting with the kernel parameter acpi=force .
I have a Acer Aspire 4736z with a new installation of natty i386 from iso and had a blank screen when booting without "nomodeset".
I managed to work around my issue by adding the modules i915.o, drm.o , drm_helper.o and video.o to the initrd and booting with the kernel parameter acpi=force .