[g45] No X display on laptop screen with Intel 4500MHD GMA graphics on Sony Vaio
Bug #268615 reported by
daniel
This bug affects 5 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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X.Org X server |
Fix Released
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Critical
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xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Canonical Ubuntu QA Team |
Bug Description
Hello, I have a Sony laptop model VGN-SR140D. It came with the intel 4500MHD GMA. I downloaded the live CD Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 5 as well as today's daily build. Both of them get past the fist loading screen then after the loading bar and ubuntu logo disappear the screen just stays black. When I press alt+ctrl+f1 the console comes up and all of the command line tools and system resources seem to work fine. Then when I went back to ctrl+alt+f7 the screen was still blank. I then tried pressing ctrl+alt+backspace which then made the GDM sound play, but still showed just a blank screen.
description: | updated |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-intel: | |
assignee: | nobody → canonical-qa |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Unknown → Critical |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Critical → Unknown |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Unknown → Critical |
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I'm seeing this issue on a Sony Vaio laptop with the same graphics chipset, Intel 4500MHD.
The model number of the laptop (in the UK at least) is VGN-SR19XN.
As Daniel describes the splash screen displays fine, then when X starts you see nothing but a blank screen.
X has started though and you can hear the Ubuntu desktop startup sound.
You can see that apart from this little (!) issue the driver is working fine by plugging in an external monitor (in Ubuntu 8.10 Beta). Even the desktop effects work beautifully. But the laptop screen is completely black.
I have tried with Ubuntu 8.04.1 and 8.10 Beta live CDs. 8.10 Beta uses xserver- xorg-video- intel version 2:2.4.1-1ubuntu6.
I've included my Xorg.0.log from booting 8.10 Beta. I can't see anything glaringly obvious in it.