[HD 4850] White screen of death - no escape
Bug #314897 reported by
Christian Convey
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #325394: [RV770 HD 4850] ATI Radeon HD 4850 not supported - white screen and system freeze.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I've got a card based on an ATI Radion HD 4850 chip. I burned today's live CD of Intrepid Ibex (386 Desktop), and used it to install the OS onto the HDD.
When GDM should come up, I get a white screen. Hitting ctrl-alt-F1 makes the screen go black, but no text comes up.
I do however hear the sound associated with GDM coming up.
Changed in xorg: | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Incomplete |
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I made a little progress. I downloaded ATI's proprietary driver (version 8.561), and installed it from single-user mode.
When I next booted, X didn't show me the white screen, but instead showed me a dialog box (grey on a black background) stating that there were problems with starting X, and it gave me several options. I think they included reconfiguring X, starting in low-graphics mode, and one other.
Anyway, I believe I started in low-graphics mode, just so I could log into my deskop. Then I went to the restricted drivers gui. It showed me a proprietary ATI driver being available, so I selected that. I was hoping that it would give me better luck than my manual installation of an ATI driver, mentioned at the beginning of this comment.
Sadly, when I rebooted, I got the same experience: the X dialog giving me a few options of how to deal with its inability to start.