I googled that, and, unbelievably, found that this bug was known since the beta version of 11.04 and is still not fixed yet. And that for a very common piece of hardware. This only confirms my view on Ubuntu's quality.
But anyways, to your problem: The problem is that the backlight of the display is not working. There seem to be different solutions for different laptops:
1. Try to adjust the brightness of the screen with the appropriate keys for your laptop. This is somewhat the simplest solution, if it works.
2. Attach a monitor and try this command in a terminal:
Code:
sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=0
If it works you should at that command to your rc.local file.