lcd blank after boot - not initialized

[Josh Antispam]

System: LenovoThinkpad T60 with Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS

History: Ubuntu 12.04 installation running purrfectly. Updated to Lubuntu 13.04, Installprocess runs through smoothly.
After Systemboot , notebook LCD stays black, but with lighted screen.

Analysis so far: With external screen connected, everything is fine. With LCD-screen only, the system can be used blindly. "NOMODESET" on grub solves the issue for one boot. "Additional drivers" does not offer anything else to install.

Workaround sofar: Waiting for screensaver to kick in or change into standby or hibernate. After "unlocking" again, the system reinitializes the screen and all is well - until the next shutdown.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: lubuntu-desktop 0.48
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-29.42-generic 3.8.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 2 23:07:02 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-03 (61 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130423.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Josh Antispam (spam-01)]

First attempt was an upgrade-install. Since screen stayed black, I tried a clean install, same behaviour.

[Peter (peter-casey51)]

Much the same is true with Lubuntu, on an old Dell Inspirion 1100. it just will not recognize the laptop's LCD screen. Seems to run nicely with the external monitor, and was able to recognize the type, size, screen resolution etc.

14.04 seems to be very buggy with graphics.

[Peter (peter-casey51)]

This is the display information for the Lubuntu bug on my Dell Inspirion 1100. Using the Live CD, Lubuntu displays well. It booted OK the first time after install, then the update manager installed several update files. I don't know how to find what these were, or what they did, but the LCD did not work after that.

*-display
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 03
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
             resources: irq:10 memory:f0000000-f7ffffff memory:e0000000-e007ffff

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect <bug #>

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

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