Aha ... fixed it. Updated my motherboard BIOS. Now its rock solid on
on ubuntu 8.10. Can't test 9.04 just now.
The board is an ASUS M3A78-EM. Old (bad) bios was 1206. New (good)
bios = 1602 That update skips a few intermediate levels, so I have no
idea which one actually fixed it.
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FYI I'm seeing exactly the same effect.
A fresh install of either 8.10 or 9.04 (AMD64 desktop). Then install
flgrx using ubuntu restricted drivers manager and I get this problem.
Loading the CPU cleans all the flickering off the screen.It's a dual
core processor, only one core needs to be
As an experiment I tried to use the vmware driver and got a similar no
devices found error. I've never actually tried the vmware driver
before, so this may just be a coincidence (has it ever worked ?).
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[jaunty] vesa driver stopped working (no devices found) inside KVM after X
update
