Evolution Systems » Blank Screen http://evolution-systems.co.uk Web Development, Software Development and Linux Consultancy services Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:18:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 Ubuntu On Lenovo Thinkpad X201 (Blank Screen Problem) http://evolution-systems.co.uk/2010/04/26/ubuntu-on-lenovo-thinkpad-x201-blank-screen-problem-2/ http://evolution-systems.co.uk/2010/04/26/ubuntu-on-lenovo-thinkpad-x201-blank-screen-problem-2/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:49:01 +0000 http://evolution-systems.co.uk/wordpress/?p=463 Just got myself one of these and had a few problems getting Ubuntu to even boot from a USB stick on it. Although it sounded like everything was going smoothly the screen was blank for some reason.

A quick google about brought up this bug:

Launchpad Bug Report

The solution to the problem is in comment #8 on there. Basically you need to use the following boot option to get the display working correctly

xforcevesa i915.modeset=0
Just stick this in at the bootloader and it should be fine. When Ubuntu is fully installed just put the same line into /etc/default/grub to make the change permanent.

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