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[Don Owen <donald.e.owen@xxxxxxxxx>]

In grub, edit your kernel line to include the phrase "xforcevesa" 
(without quotes) at the end of the line.  I also remove the "quiet" and 
"splash" options so I can see the boot text, but that's optional.  Once 
you get it booted up, then you can permanently edit your grub options.  
This works for my VPCY2 with integrated graphics, though it is not ideal.

-Don Owen

On 10/28/2010 08:49 AM, Roman Groger wrote:
> Just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10. The screen does not work out of the box 
> at all. If I go to the recovery mode and check the error messages, 
> there is one that says "no screens found". If I attempt to startx 
> either from the command line or from the recovery mode by choosing the 
> failsafeX video mode, the computer freezes. Any ideas ?
>
> Albert Vilella wrote:
> > Try Ubuntu 10.10, they've fixed it to make auto-configuration of 
> > external screens easier (up to 1920x1200). If it doesn't work out of 
> > the box, try to run the safe-graphics mode once it's installed, there 
> > is a very simple reconfiguration tool that will find out about your 
> > screens...
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Roman Gröger <xalbert76@xxxxxxxxx 
> > <mailto:xalbert76@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dear all.
> >
> >     I know that this problem has been discussed many times but I still
> >     cannot make it to work. I just purchased SONY Vaio VPCY2 and 
> > installed
> >     Ubuntu 10.04. I have the integrated Intel graphics (i915). I get no
> >     output on the laptop screen and, at the same time, a beautiful 
> > hi-res
> >     output on my external 21" lab monitor. The tricks with adding
> >     i915.modeset=0 or 1 in grub don't work (the former freezes up the
> >     laptop
> >     with two LEDs above the Delete key blinking). Did some of you 
> > make it
> >     work ? I would greatly appreciate your guidance to fix this.
> >
> >     Thanks a lot,
> >
> >     Roman
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