PCI-Express Cards not working

[opensourcerules]

I have read and experience many of the same problems found in the forum using PCI-express graphics cards. After install and first boot no graphical display is shown. There is really no way to get it to show KDE or Grome.
I am currently useing a sapphire X700 PCI graphics card which fails to work.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Hi opensourcerules, Thanks for the bug report.

Could you provide some more information about exactly what doesn't work---does the system boot if you pass the kernel 'vga=...' to run in text-mode and delete the 'splash' directive.

What's the last thing you see on the screen before the graphics card "fails to work"?

What happens when the card "fails to work", do you see a black screen for instance, or moving lines, or an X error.

If you can get a text-console, by running "(recovery mode)", does 'lspci' show the video card; if it does then this is an Xorg error and probably not related to PCI express (which shows up transparently as normal PCI).

[opensourcerules (opensourcerocks)]

Thanks for looking at this.
I believe that Nvidia PCI-express cards work ok but not ATI cards.
The system boots and aks me for my user name and password.
So I give it and nothing else happens, just a space for me to type in commands.
Using the Ubuntu forum suggestions it is X error that occours. When I type in startx.
I am new to linux but tried many distrutions on a different computer and found ubuntu to be the best for me. Ubuntu is about the only distribution that I would use.

[Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug has had no activity for a considerable period. This is a check to see if there is still interest in investigating this bug report.

[Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing.