So, I just got a new lenovo Y510p with windows 8 on it by default. I had read up about UEFI and all that, and was ready to go when it arrived today. I first tried disabling UEFI so I could install 12.04 64 bit because I wanted a stable version. It was a black screen on the installer so I googled it and enabled nomodeset to fix the problem. 12.04 installed fine, but now when I try to boot normally its a black screen again. I assumed it was the same problem so I googled how to enable nomodeset outside of the installer. I found three methods people were saying, this one that says to replace quiet splash with nomodeset in GRUB, this one which seems to say to replace quiet splash with nomodeset and link it with $vt_handoff with an underscore, and this one which shows adding nomodeset to the end of the linux /boot line. All of these methods I tried on 12.04 and 13.04 (with UEFI reenabled) to no avail. However, on two of the methods I did get a list of checks showing if different things pass or fail on which the "generic graphic drivers" or something along those lines showed a fail. Anything I can do here??
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I linked to that thread as a non-working solution I already tried. – Jemimacakes Sep 04 '13 at 07:55
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1If none of those work then unfortunately you need to file a bug. – Jorge Castro Sep 04 '13 at 16:53