[geeks] Ubuntu on Intel graphics

[Joshua Boyd]

I was sorting of hoping that someone may be familiar with this.

I have a new Atom motherboard that uses the GMA 3150 graphics.

Under Ubuntu 9.04, I could only seem to get this working in VESA mode.

I tried upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (both by upgrading that disk, and also
trying a disk with a clean install) and now what I get is a blank screen
after the works Starting up.  If I choose rescue mode, I see a little
text, then it turns blank faster (way less than a second) than I can
recognize what I'm seeing.

I tried in grub adding to the rescue mode kernel line the flag vga=264
to try to force text mode, but that just makes in blank from the
beginning.

Any suggestions?

At this point, I can't easily do a clean install (I can't seem to make a
working bootable USB key, and I don't have a SATA optical drive), but I
could mount the disk on another machine to try editing settings on the
disk.