If my instructions above are wrong somewhere, I apologise because I am writing this from memory. At the bootup, press ESCAPE to see the 'GRUB' screen. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F7 (or any other keys) has no effect.ĬK, your problem *might* be due to Ubuntu Lucid NOT working properly with the Intel Graphics chipset. However, about 95% of the time the machine fails to boot - after 3-4 seconds, and without showing anything on the screen (text or graphical), it hangs with a black screen with a flashing text-mode cursor. After several attempts (just rebooting) it worked. It hangs with a black screen with a flashing text-mode cursor. After installing Ubuntu the first boot up failed. I installed Ubuntu netbook version on my HP netbook Mini 110 with Windows 7. Or if its blank then copy/paste the following, save and reboot: The above command will show your current nf file, you want to change the Driver 'whatever' to Driver 'vesa' To find out your graphics card type the following in termial:Īpparently the driver which was in use 'i915' was not working well with the xorg so i switched to 'vesa' driver and since i have not ever had a problem. 'Intel Corporation 82845G/GL/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)' I had similar problem when the screen would go blank but i would get vertical grey lines.
