Purple screen flicker on black screen when starting Ubuntu 14.04 with amd radeon 6450 gfx card
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Hi there!
I cant start Ubunutu 14.04..
During the upstart I see the usual ubuntu loading screen (the one with the dots before loading x)..
But I see it with purple flicker and strange "noise patterns" across the screen here and there..
Then it continues on to the loginscreen in ubuntu but here I dont see anything, its black background with the same purple flicker/strange noise patterns here and there..
Some times I can see the cursor displaying on this black/purple distortion pattern and I have one purple "square distortion pattern" following the cursor when I move it around.. other than that I cant see a thing actually so something goes wrong when loading this..
It all worked a few days ago and then I updated ubuntu and it didnt worked.. Maybee it did have something to do with that I changed the harddrive with gfx-card to another computer with the same chipset on the motherboard (its only a slower cpu) because I was trying a thing there and then I changed it back.. if I dont remember wrong it stopped working there? Or if it did work and stopped working after doing the usual ubuntu updates.. I dont remember to be honest when it did stop working..
Im not that experienced with ubuntu so I dont know what to do from here, help would be appriciated!
You can write what I can try and so I can reply here with the results..
right now its working everything, but I did remove the amd radeon 6450 gfx card and run on the motherboards integrated gfx-chip..
then it loaded as usual so I suspect its something with the amd driver somehow.. but still I have no clue how to fix this.. Ive tried to run in failsafe-x mode at the grub start but with no sucess.. then its only dark with a blinking cursor up in the corner but with nothing else.. not with the purple distortion patterns anyway when I run that mode.. but nothing is loading as said..
I have changed the hd with ubuntu from another computer back and forth, both motherboards have the same chip, one comupter have a sligthly more power cpu, the other dont, Ive changed the gfx card also from one computer to the other.. It worked at first doing this with no errors but now suddently it doesnt work on the new motherboard/cpu..
Thankful for help anyway!
/Micke
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic i686
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
CompositorRunning: kwin
Date: Fri Aug 1 22:45:01 2014
DistUpgraded: 2014-07-30 23:07:00,955 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
fglrx-updates, 13.350.1, 3.11.0-26-generic, i686: installed
fglrx-updates, 13.350.1, 3.13.0-32-generic, i686: installed
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2772] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01ad]
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01ad]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-07-11 (1116 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex GX620
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-07-30 (1 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/30/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0FH884
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: OptiPlex GX620
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11.
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
xserver.bootTime: Fri Aug 1 22:37:41 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors: [dix] Logitech Gaming Mouse G600: unable to find touch point 0
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
product id 12292
vendor DEL
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
Also I can add that it did not stopped working directly after upgrading to 14.04 (from 13.10 I think), it did stopped working logged in/starting the graphics/windows enviroment a short time afterwards if that information would be of any help..?