The initial black screen problem looks like kernel modesetting bug. So workaround would be booting with radeon.modeset=0 to use old UMS driver.
There has bee quite a lot fixes to mode selection in 2.6.33 kernel which Ubuntu should backport to 2.6.32 kernel to fix the bugs in 2.6.32. -- [Lucid alpha2] ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 not displaying on LVDS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522394 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati 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
