Hi Bryce,
Thanks for the tip. Is -radeonhd a boot parameter that I can supply
to the Live CD's kernel command line?
- Christian
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Bryce Harrington
br...@bryceharrington.org wrote:
The usual technique is to boot into recovery/failsafe mode, set up the
network,
The usual technique is to boot into recovery/failsafe mode, set up the
network, install stuff, make xorg.conf edits, and then continue to the
normal boot or run startx.
However, you've got an r700 card, and the support for that is still
quite new and fairly incomplete, so probably you should just
Okay, I tried to reproduce the bug more carefully, so I can give a
better report. Here are the details:
I downloaded the 9.04 (alpha3) AMD64 live desktop CD. I booted from it,
using it as a live CD.
I ended up with a plain white screen. Hitting ctrl-alt-backspace had no
visible effect.
When
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = New
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: xorg = xserver-xorg-video-ati
Importance: Undecided = High
Status: New = Incomplete
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White screen of death - no escape
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One other thing, please attach your X server configuration file
(/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) to the
bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the
Attachment: box below. Could you please also try to run without any
/etc/X11/xorg.conf and let
I made a little progress. I downloaded ATI's proprietary driver
(version 8.561), and installed it from single-user mode.
When I next booted, X didn't show me the white screen, but instead
showed me a dialog box (grey on a black background) stating that there
were problems with starting X, and it
