Comment 45 for bug 272406

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 272406] Re: [HD 3650] cannot start gnome X in intrepid (gray screen with horizontal thin flashing black lines)

The fixes went in post-alpha 6 so you wouldn't see it with the plain
livecd, unless you do an update. A recent daily livecd should have it,
or wait for the beta which should be out before too long.

Bryce

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:14:25PM -0000, Gavin Lu wrote:
> I downloaded alpha 6 a few days ago I think and tried to run live cd but I
> run into the same problem. I'm using an asus laptop with radeon mobility hd
> 3650 card.
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Bryce Harrington <<email address hidden>
> > wrote:
>
> > I've uploaded 6.12.0 to Jaunty a little while ago (and corresponding
> > kernel fixes were put in last week) which I believe fixes this issue.
> > Can you please test on latest Jaunty and confirm the issue is gone?
> >
> > --
> > [HD 3650] cannot start gnome X in intrepid (gray screen with horizontal
> > thin flashing black lines)
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272406
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
> > Status in X.org XServer - ATI gfx chipset driver: Confirmed
> > Status in ???xserver-xorg-video-ati??? source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> >
> > Bug description:
> > When I load up the latest live 64 bit ubuntu intrepid CD, I can't get
> > into the GUI. When Gnome tries to come up, I get odd
> > rainbow-like patterns around the edges of the screen fading into
> > the center (this might be intentional, but I've never seen it in
> > Hardy). Then a blank gray screen appears with intermittently
> > flashing horizontal thin black lines.
> >
> > Hitting Shift-Alt-F1 takes me here to file this bug. I have an ASUS
> > F8 Sp (F8Sp) notebook with ATI Radeon HD 3650 graphics card.
> >
> > Gnome works just fine on this laptop with the proprietary (fglrx)
> > driver in Hardy, but not this new, more Intrepid version.
> >
> > Let me know if I can provide any other details.
> >
> > ProblemType: Bug
> > Architecture: amd64
> > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> > ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/Xorg
> > Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.5.0-1ubuntu1
> > ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
> > ProcEnviron:
> > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-3-generic (buildd@crested) (gcc version
> > 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1hostname6) ) #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 16:18:52 UTC 2008
> >
> > SourcePackage: xorg-server
> > Uname: Linux 2.6.27-3-generic x86_64
> > Xrandr:
> >
> > setxkbmap:
> >
> > xdpyinfo:
> >
> > xkbcomp:
> > [lspci]
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960
> > Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 03)
> > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1517]
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Mobilitiy
> > Radeon HD 3650 [1002:9591]
> > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1633]
> >
> >
>
> --
> [HD 3650] cannot start gnome X in intrepid (gray screen with horizontal thin flashing black lines)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272406
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