Ubuntu 9.04 RC shows nothing on screen at boot
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Bug Description
Booting Ubuntu 9.04 RC iso image. I see nothing on the screen until I get to the logon window, to get there I had to use key combinations from I knew from booting on another PC to go through boot screen prompts. Once booted up the screen resolution is so unusable that I can not make adjustments. I believe this problem is due to an unusual hardware setup. This consists of an RCA HDTV rear projection TV using DVI input from an ATI Radeon 9250 graphics card. I believe Ubuntu is picking the wrong graphic port or screen resoution on the card at boot. Please note that I have not tested other Ubuntu ISO images previous to this attempt.
Here are the properties of the card (From Windows XP)
Name RADEON 9250
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_
Adapter Type RADEON 9250 AGP (0x5960), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible
Adapter Description RADEON 9250
Adapter RAM 128.00 MB (134,217,728 bytes)
Installed Drivers ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version 6.14.10.6614
INF File oem1.inf (ati2mtag_RV280 section)
Color Planes 1
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1707 x 960 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xE0000000-
I/O Port 0x00002000-
Memory Address 0xC0100000-
IRQ Channel IRQ 16
I/O Port 0x000003B0-
I/O Port 0x000003C0-
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\winnt\
Name RADEON 9250 - Secondary
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_
Adapter Type RADEON 9250 Secondary AGP (0x5940), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible
Adapter Description RADEON 9250 - Secondary
Adapter RAM 128.00 MB (134,217,728 bytes)
Installed Drivers ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version 6.14.10.6614
INF File oem1.inf (ati2mtag_RV280 section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries Not Available
Resolution Not Available
Bits/Pixel Not Available
Memory Address 0xE8000000-
Memory Address 0xC0110000-
Driver c:\winnt\
System information (From Windows XP)
System Manufacturer IBM
System Model 808515U
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2793 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date IBM 2CKT25AUS, 2008-01-21
SMBIOS Version 2.31
Boot Device \Device\
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'ICH5'/'Intel ICH5 with AD1981B at irq 17'
Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981B'
Components : 'AC97a:41445374'
Controls : 34
Simple ctrls : 23
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100224.1)
Lsusb:
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: IBM 808515U
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
Regression: No
RelatedPackageV
Reproducible: Yes
RfKill:
Tags: lucid needs-upstream-
TestedUpstream: No
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686
UserGroups:
dmi.bios.date: 01/21/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 2CKT25AUS
dmi.board.name: D865GKD
dmi.board.vendor: Intel
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:
dmi.product.name: 808515U
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM
There are issues with ATI Radeon graphics cards and xserver 1.6 and/or 2.6.28 kernels. /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ xserver- xorg-video- ati/+bug/ 293698 - [RV280 9250] No signal to monitor in 8.04 unless NoDRI used /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ xserver- xorg-video- ati/+bug/ 348332 - [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite /bugs.launchpad .net/xorg- server/ +bug/133192 - Blank screen or distorted image because of wrong default AGPMode value
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I also have ATI Radeon 9250 (RV280) and adding NoDRI in /etc/X11/xorg.conf solved my blank-screen- after-boot issue:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "ati"
Option "NoDRI"
EndSection