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Just installed Mint 5 on a Dell 1150 with a Gig of RAM. Sometimes on startup, it hangs after the splash screen and there's just a black screen.
I switched from Ubuntu, as that was sometimes twitchy with a similar kind of problem. Same thing's happening here.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it very much.

If you have intermittent issues with blank screen, dont think following helps. But if you wont get screen at all, following may help:

I think 1150 uses intel graphics. should be easily supported....

try getting to console - ctrl-alt-F2 - you should get a login window. If so try this from command prompt:

sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then change Driver to vesa in the "Devide" section.

now try startx from command prompt. This may bring up X in VGA mode. Now if the system reports availability of restricted drivers, enable it. This may solve the problem.

I'll give that a try. Thanks for your suggestion.