“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”
Are your graphics dead in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)? This hack might help
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