Dell Studio 15 "White Screen of Death" Karmic Koala Workaround
It’s a horrible feeling to watch your system die after an upgrade. You may have experienced this problem before. Fear not, there is a workaround, and you will be back into your computer in no time. Just follow these directions, they may appear slightly more advanced than what you might be used to, but this can be fixed. Add “nomodeset” to the boot options in grub. Use vim (or nano, or whatever you like to use) to edit the boot options. If you are booting from your hard drive on a recent upgrade, you can hit “Esc” at the grub boot screen and select the kernel after 2.6.31. ...