This is quite an old bug indeed. The system in question was upgraded to ubuntu 13.04 or 13.10 (don't remember exactly) which resulted in a black screen when X was supposed to have started and an unusable system. I did not investigate this deeply but instead did a fresh install of Xubuntu 13.10, which worked without problems. In the fresh install the default video driver setup works out of the box, with the only problem that 3d accelleration is not supported (but that's a known problem I guess). (Note: running ubuntu 13.10 from a live usb environment also appeared to work out of the box, although it was as expected very slow.)
So this bug can be closed as far as I'm concerned. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/880882 Title: X starts with garbled screen, restarting X from cli fixes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/880882/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
