MBP Chimes but screen goes to black.

Having not used a Mac in many years, I'm not sure what I'm looking at for a problem. There are many postings with similar titles but I haven't found much in the way of details.
My son's early 2011 MBP 15" chimes, displays the gray screen with Apple logo and spinning gear, and then when it should display the desktop the screen goes black. A few seconds later the keyboard lights come on but the Apple logo on the cover goes off.  We've zapped and reset everything according to Apple and various web sites.
The OS came installed on this and I have no CDs. I did try booting it up on an Ubuntu CD. The machine did not boot fully but it did display a full color screen when Ubuntu was attempting to load. After that it dropped out to BusyBox but I was able to interact with the machine from the BB command line (e.g. navigating through the CD file structure, issues basic Unix commands).
Booting with Command-R produces little difference. Chimes, displays the gray screen and gear, and then displays black. The one small difference is that the keyboard lighting does not come on and it does not appear to go as far into it's startup sequence as it does when booting off of the regular HD (e.g. pushing the volume keys produces no sound, the eject button won't eject a CD etc.)
Booting with the Option key down displays the Mac HD, Recovery HD, and our wireless network. None of those choices produces any difference though the wireless does seem to connect up properly
I assume if the hard drive had failed completely then I would not see it on the Option boot display. I'm assuming that the 'Recovery HD' is a partition on the HD, so if the HD is running but the file systems are corrupt that might explain why they produce the same result. I'm not sure what the Command-R boot is supposed to do.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? It would seem I need to boot this up off of a CD to see if I can access the HD but I'm not a Mac guy. I do have access to a late 2011 MBP 13" but that also had the OS installed and came with no disks.

I was hoping that with the 10.10.1 update that this issue would be fixed. I may have discovered what is happening though.
I tried doing the above with the C-Span site. It worked! My MBP screen didn't go black and I could click on things there and it wouldn't lose the full-screen on the Apple TV. Good.
I then tried the RT USA feed where I first noticed this. Going full-screen on the tv made my MBP screen go black. SO, I am assuming this is a RT problem.
Am I right? (I have written them and hope to hear back.)
I also noticed that when clicking on the "computer" icon on Apple TV's menu, it tells me to turn on Home Sharing even though it is on. I indulged. I turned off home sharing in iTunes and turned it back on. Apple TV said it couldn't find my home library. OK.
I then played a movie, choosing the Apple TV on iTunes and it played!
So, Apple TV IS seeing my iTunes library so Home Sharing must be working even though Apple TV doesn't think so. Right?
I guess I'll ignore the message that says it can't find my home library and just do what I want to do. It would be nice if this was fixed though.
Any ideas from others?
Cheers,
John

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    Thread 3:  FThread
    0   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x00007fff87a95dce semaphore_timedwait_trap + 10
    1   com.steinberg.cubase                  0x00000001014f8437 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 3278615
    2   com.steinberg.cubase                  0x00000001007c8be0 0x100000000 + 8162272
    3   com.steinberg.cubase                  0x00000001014f8eb0 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 3281296
    4   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x00007fff87b7129a _pthread_body + 24
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    0   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x00007fff87a95dda semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap + 10
    1   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x00007fff87ad4772 _pthread_cond_wait + 1015
    2   com.apple.CoreVideo                   0x00007fff82fbade6 CVDisplayLink::waitUntil(unsigned long long) + 252
    3   com.apple.CoreVideo                   0x00007fff82fba2a2 CVDisplayLink::runIOThread() + 644
    4   com.apple.CoreVideo                   0x00007fff82fb9fe3 startIOThread(void*) + 139
    5   libSystem.B.dylib                 0x00007fff87acefd6 _pthread_start + 331
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    Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
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      rdi: 0x00000001211f4000  rsi: 0x00000001211f4000  rbp: 0x00007fff5fbfe170  rsp: 0x00007fff5fbfdce8
       r8: 0x0000000000000000   r9: 0x00007fff8abcf420  r10: 0x0000000000000000  r11: 0x00007fff8abcf420
      r12: 0x00000001224521e0  r13: 0x00000001211f4000  r14: 0x000000012473fd9f  r15: 0x00007fff5fbfdcf0
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    Try a Reset...
    Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears. Release the Buttons.
    If no joy... Try a Restore...
    1: Connect the device to your computer and open iTunes.
    2: If the device appears in iTunes, select and click Restore on the Summary pane.
    3: If the device doesn't appear in iTunes, try using the steps in this article to force the device into recovery mode.
    From Here
    Unresponsive iPad
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3281

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