Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #153188
  2. Comment #42

Comment 42 for bug 153188

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Andy Piper (andy-piper-gmail) wrote :

I've been seeing very similar behaviour as John at Canterbury in all desktop Ubuntu releases since 7.04, except the "black display" problem occurs randomly about 50% of the time on my system. The same "switch TTYs" workaround works for me too.

Since upgrading to 8.10 I've been presented with a dark red/brown screen (very) occasionally, but the vast majority of the time its black. Disabling usplash seems to have no effect.

My system is an Aopen Minipc MP965 with a similar spec to John's: an Intel GM965 chipset and X3100 integrated graphics, but I only have a single VGA monitor attached (an Acer P223W LCD running at 1680 x 1050)

I'll grab the Xorg logs next time I see this happen.