:Are your graphics dead in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)? This hack might help
Are your graphics dead in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)? This hack might help Nov 5, 2009, 17 :02 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2690 reads) (Other stories by Steven Rosenberg)
"To test whether or not the fix works, when you get to the GRUB screen, hit esc to stop the boot, then go arrow down to the kernel boot line, type e to edit it and add the following to the end (or after the ro ... both work for me):
i915.modeset=0
"Then type b to boot.
"If your computer boots into Ubuntu 9.10 and you now have a working display, make this change permanent by adding that same line to the GRUB entries for Ubuntu permanently by using your sudo privileges to edit the GRUB configuration file, /boot/grub/menu.lst"
