Comment 95 for bug 297245

@Ryan Perkins @Jerone

I was havig the same problem with my Dell Studio 15 with the gm965.

I followed your suggestion and was able to get ubuntu 9.10 installed and it works fine now (after editing the /boot/grub/grub.cfg) with the nomodeset option.

some more information

http://www.antiyes.com/dell-studio-15-ubuntu-910-install