Hi Martin, You are not the only one suffering from this bug. There is a bugreport for this problem: <a href="http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17292">http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17292</a> I also bought an SR19XN - great notebook... The GM45 _should_ work, but it looks like Sony messed something up ;) Regards, Karsten <div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/1 Martin Kemp <<a href="mailto:martin.p.kemp@gmail.com">martin.p.kemp@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">hi <div class="gmail_quote"> i'm running intel 2.5 drivers, mesa 7.2, libdrm 2.3.1 on ubuntu 8.10. I can only get vision using the vesa drivers on the LCD monitor, but when i change to intel in xorg.conf, ubuntu boots and logs in, but the screen remains blank (but with the backlight on) Does any one have any idea what i can do to fix this? i've included xorg.conf and xorg.0.log. I was hoping 2.5 would fix this! many thanks for your help -- Martin Kemp Tel: 07779 236114 </div> -- Martin Kemp Tel: 07779 236114 _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.freedesktop.org">xorg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> </blockquote></div>