Today I updated my old 32 bit Lubuntu 16.04 netbook from the 4.10 kernel to the 4.13 kernel per an automatic update pushed out for the Meltdown issue. Unfortunately this resulted in booting to a black screen. My graphics is Intel 945 GME x86 MMX SSE 2, graphics driver 1.4 Mesa 17.3.1 from the padoka PPA.
Something is wrong right from the git-go: I turned off quiet splash in grub and the text display during boot does not fit the screen, the lowest line is off the bottom of the screen.
I can drop back to the old kernel and everything is fine.
I looked at the canonical question My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?; the path through that leads me to the conclusion that it was caused by the kernel update, which I knew.
Is there a fix for this graphics problem under the new kernel?
linux-image-generic). What is bad with Mesa from official repository? – N0rbert Jan 10 '18 at 16:204.4.0-109which patchesMeltdownhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support – kenn Jan 10 '18 at 16:22