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| straythenomad (chrismenning-gmail) wrote Dell Studio 15 Doesn't Boot, White Screen of Death | #0 |
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I purchased a Dell Studio 15 with Ubuntu pre-installed.
The graphics adapter is an Intel x3100
The LCD is 1280x800.
I suspect that the LCD is not compatible with the current version of the Linux driver.
Out of the box, the loading screens appear just fine. Once the X server loads, the screen goes mostly white, with some scattered lines, each about 1 pixel wide.
I then booted to "recovery mode" and selected the option for the system to attempt to fix X on its own. This resulted in a "White Screen of Death" as well.
Any attempt to use the Intel driver results in a White Screen of Death.
Vesa will not recognize a 1280x800 resolution and only gives 800x600 upon initial installation. After installing KDE the screen results in 1024x768 but still will not work in 1280x800, even though those resolutions are listed in the Modelines in xorg.conf.
Bug is present in Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10, if not more.
The worst part is that even the replacement Dell Studio 15 has this same problem. I suspect that Dell is knowingly selling a model of laptop that is supposedly "approved hardware" that they never got to work in the first place.