After a fresh Install of Ubuntu 7.10 with ether the i386 Desktop CD or the i386 Alternate Install CD to my HP-Laptop DV9225us. (I tried both) get a black screen on first boot any every boot after.

After a fresh Install of Ubuntu 7.10 with ether the i386 Desktop CD or the i386 Alternate Install CD to my HP-Laptop DV9225us. (I tried both) get a black screen on first boot any every boot after.

My laptop uses a built-in NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 Display Adapter with 256mb of RAM.

The fix/work around was to use the recovery mode and then to type INIT 3 to bring up x-windows. (Discovered by accident.) this was with a unchanged/unedited /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Then to install the latest NVIDA accelerated graphics Driver from the Restricted Drivers window while in gnome. Then to reboot with new driver.

I can now use X-windows and gnome. But when I try to use any of the system-consoles (Ctrl-Alt-F1 thru Ctrl-Alt-F7) I get a blank screen unless I take off any vga=nnn statements inside of /boot/grub/menu.lst

I would like to use vga=792. The i386 Desktop installer CD shows VGA modes up to 1024x768x32bit = 792 for this laptop. But this machine will not take any modes greater then 640x480x8bit.

I also have the very same problem with a AMD-ATI X1050 display adapter 256mb ram on a Compaq Desktop machine.

I'm using Kernel 2.6.22-14-generic

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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 30 00:03:43 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: hal 0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: hal
Uname: Linux hp-laptop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux