I performed a clean install of karmic on a lennovo thinkpad t500 and the detected radeon driver worked just fine but I thought i would try the restricted driver. Once I installed it and restarted - all I got was a black screen with a non-blinking cursor in the upper left. I was unable to switch to any terminals to correct the issue.
I ended up reverting back to the ati driver with the live cd, chroot, and following the instructions at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/FglrxInteferesWithRadeonDriver#Problem:%20%20Need%20to%20fully%20remove%20-fglrx%20and%20reinstall%20-ati%20from%20scratch I thought I'd report the issue but I'm no longer blocked. Kudos for a great product. i'll stick with the non-restricted stuff. Thanks! jim ** Attachment added: "lspci of Lennovo T500" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38176903/lspci.txt -- [HD 4800] Installed fglrx leads to black screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404502 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ 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
