[gutsy tribe 5] live cd fails to start, black screen after installation screen on ati mobility radeon x700

[Dixon]

I'm using a toshiba satellite M70-144 with a ati mobility radeon x700. After the first installation/start screen the ubuntu logo appears, after that the screen goes black and the live cd fails to start. The same thing happens i safe graphics mode. In fiesty I havn't had this problem but it was just the same in dapper and the early alphas of fiesty.

[wearingaredhat (clay-stsolutions)]

My ATI X1400 in my dell e1505 has the same problem. X fails to start I end up just at a command prompt.

[Roel Huybrechts (rulus)]

I might suffer the same problem: I tested today's Gutsy daily live cd and X would not load. All I got after usplash loaded was a black screen.. There was no way pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a command prompt, the screen stayed black. I don't know which driver Gutsy uses by default (fglrx or ati)? Hardware: Acer Aspire laptop with Ati Mobility Radeon x700.
I'm marking the bug as confirmed.

[Eagle2 (davide-barbuto)]

The same here...Ati Mobility Radeon x700...X fails to start in normal mode.

[David F (david-fahlen)]

I've been having the same problem with two consecutive daily live cds, mine is an ATI Radeon Xpress 200.

[Roel Huybrechts (rulus)]

I think this might be a bug in the open-source ati driver, I'm changing the package to xserver-xorg-driver-ati.

[molnaratt (molnaratt)]

The same problem on Ati x200m.

Here is what I did:
When X starts I press ctrl-alt-f1, login as root, and kill gdm immediately.
Then I edit the xorg.conf file, and add a module section and disable dri. Then I restart gdm. In this way I can start X server, only the fonts look small and ugly.

I think the problem is caused by aiglx/dri, which hasn't been supported by open source drivers yet.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

molnaratt, David and wearingaredhat, it sounds like you have different issues on different cards. Please file new bugs.

BTW, the open-source driver supports aiglx and dri on most older cards (up to X1050).