[ale] Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't like my laptop but 9.10 worked just fine on it?

[mike at trausch.us (Michael B. Trausch)]

On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 12:50 -0400, Van Loggins wrote:
> I have a Gateway M320 that I wanted to put Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on
> 
> the problem is that something seems to have changed with Xorg in this 
> version. for whatever reason the screen goes blank when it tries to 
> start up x windows. I did a distribution upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04
> and 
> everything seemed to go just fine. when it asked to reboot I let it.
> 
> When it came back up it went to a black screen as soon as X started. 
> Whatever is causing it is so bad that I can't even get a console to
> pop 
> up by pressing ctrl-F1,ctrl-f2,etc.
> 
> I downloaded the iso for 10.04 and tried to boot my laptop from it,
> and 
> got the same problem, as soon as x starts it goes to a black screen.
> 
> does anyone know a workaround for this issue?
> 
> I'm going to download the alternate installer and try it next, but
> I'm 
> not very hopeful at this point. 

What video chipset are we talking about?

	--- Mike