[geeks] Ubuntu on Intel graphics

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:23:14PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> I believe this is a known bug in Ubuntu 9.10 that affects a range if
> nVidia, Radeon and Intel graphics chipsets.  It actually destroyed the
> screen on one of our laptops by strobing the backlight on and off until
> it failed.
> 
> If you have ssh access to the box, you might try disabling framebuffer
> console.  I can't guarantee anything, but it may help.

Adding to the rescue kernel line via grub, vga=normal nofb nosplash
Still no love.  Thanks anyway though.
 
> Personally, I just don't use Ubuntu.  It's too frustrating to beat it
> into submission every time I want to do something NOT precisely the way
> the rest of the Ubuntu herd does it.  Ubuntu's constant "DON'T TOUCH
> THAT, you USER!!!" makes me want to take a heavy steel ruler to the
> knuckles of the Ubuntu developers.

Well, unless I can figure out how to make a USB bootable thumb drive for
some other distro, I'm a little stuck with ubuntu at the moment.