Macbook monitor went out. Driver issue?

About 8 months ago my macbook monitor went out. Since then I have been using an external monitor. This week I booted to a Linux live CD (Kubuntu) and the monitor worked just fine.
I would appreciate any suggestions or direction with this.
Seems to be a simple driver problem. I have checked the Intel and Apple websites to see if there was a driver and couldn't find anything.

Hi xenogy, and a warm welcome to the forums!
First try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
It also tries to load a "safe Video Driver".
Get Pacifist...
http://www.charlessoft.com/
then extract what you need from your Install Disk.
Or, a relatively painless Archive & Install, which gives you a new/old OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space and no Disk corruption, and is relatively quick & painless...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Just be sure to select Preserve Users & Settings.

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