Ubuntu 13.10 on Acer V5-472 with HD 4000

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Published on 2014-03-20T20:00:27Z Indexed on 2014/08/24 4:23 UTC
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I have an Acer V5-472 with intel HD4000 graphics chipset and a built-in 1366*768 display.

I have installed ubuntu 13.10 amd64 in legacy boot mode with an external monitor.

Installation showed no problems, I can boot from HDD and log into my system.

The internal display doesn't work and I have to use an external monitor.

I have tried the following (found in other threads) to no avail:

  1. Setting grub option "acpi_backlight=vendor" or "acpi_osi=Linux" or both.

  2. Installing the intel HD drivers for Linux from their homepage.

  3. Running in circles, screaming and shouting.

The internal display lights up (I can change the brightness with Fn-Left and Fn-Right) but that's all.

When I boot, I get a purple splash screen and from then only the external monitor works.

I read somewhere that this might be a problem with kernel 3.11? Has anybody ubuntu running on an Acer V5-472? Should I change ubuntu version or use 32-bit instead? In general, how can I get the internal display to work?

Edit: The settings->display dialogue shows the internal display correctly with supported resolution of 1366.

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