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I'm a first time Ubuntu user. Just installed 12.04. Only the top half of the display paints, and when I reboot, the screen goes black. My only work around is closing the laptop until it hibernates, then opening lid. Then I can log in, but only top half of display works. Very frustrating.

Is this a known bug? Anyone else experiencing this?

thanks.

Jack

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I strongly suspect you have an Inspiron 1010 with Intel's gma500, aka, Mini 10, at least the symptoms are exactly the same. The lack of Linux support for gma500 is very well known, and yes, many Linux users have experienced the same problem. Hope that answers the questions. If interested, you can search for more info, there was a lot of discontent when people still hoped that Intel might provide a working driver. Here's a good example.

In case you are also interested in working around the problem, please follow the Wiki Page (or the steps below). Option 1 should do the trick.

Here what should be done:

In a terminal window, run

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Find the following line: GRUB_CMDLINE_DEAULT="quiet splash"

Add console=tty1 in between the quotes, the end result looking as follows

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash console=tty1"

Save and exit, then run sudo update-grub.

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I have one of those Dell Inspiron Mini 1010s and ran into this problem when installing Ubuntu 12.04.

I did as above, but found I also needed to do Option 2:

Essentially the same as above, just remove splash from the GRUB_CMDLINE_DEFAULT options.

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