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  1. Bug #557744
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 557744

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Glen Ditchfield (gjditchfield) wrote : Re: lucid beta 2 live shows black screen

I have tried a persistent live USB key made from the lucid-desktop-amd64.iso of 20100416 (note: not i386), md5sum 3457aff4863972bbb38806e68cd30a77, which I think will be the beta3 release.

Results for "Try kubuntu without installing":
* with no options changed
  - screen goes black
  - KDE start-up sound plays
  - Ctrl-Alt-Fn produces no visible results.
  - blind-typing Ctrl-Alt-Del Down-arrow CR CR etc shuts down the computer

* with "splash" removed from the boot options
  - as above

* with "splash" present in the boot options and "nomodeset" selected in the F6 menu
  - big ugly boot animation. It looks like the resolution is 640x480 8-bit.
  - screen goes black, then fades in dim bands of odd colors.
  - KDE start-up sound does _not_ play.
  - Ctrl-Alt-Fn does nothing.
  - Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing.

* with "splash" removed and "nomodeset" selected
  - no boot animation.
  - screen shows many text messages, starting with "stdin: error 0" and "can't open /dev/sr0", each repeated a few times.
  - screen goes black, then fades in dim bands of odd colors.
  - KDE start-up sound does _not_ play.
  - Ctrl-Alt-Fn and Ctrl-Alt-Del do nothing.