I have the same problem I guess. I'm using a Radeon X800 with chip R420. Setting the nomodeset option makes the system boot, but there is no 3D acceleration. Which is pretty much a show stopper nowadays. It used to work fine after all, before the kernel and xorg people decided to push unfinished stuff on users.
I'm using Lucid with kernel 2.6.32-24-generic. I also tried kernels from the mainline ppa: 2.6.32-0206321708-generic and 2.6.34-020634-generic. Same problem. Please fix this! It really frustrating and doesn't make a good impression, if the first run of your new Ubuntu just freezes on boot... And this bug seems to affect quite a few systems with older Radeon cards. My system is not too exotic I think and I don't quite understand how a 4 month old LTS release doesn't even boot on common hardware! Leave alone being fixed in a reasonable time... ** Attachment added: "radeon_agp_init_oops.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/531635/+attachment/1499991/+files/radeon_agp_init_oops.txt -- Kernel oops with radeon module, kernel modesetting fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531635 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs