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  1. Bug #1607891
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Comment 3 for bug 1607891

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In , Fritz Hudnut (este-el-paz) wrote :

I just discovered this approx. same issue on my Powermac 3,1 while running U-MATE Xenial for PPC when I added the "proper" r128 video driver. After doing that I can see some log files and comments while the system boots, but arriving at what should be the splash . . . is now a blackish screen.

With the original install a few months back I think the installer picked "fbdevhw" as the driver and generally the display was good resolution. However, the log in screen had issues with low resolution background image, so I filed a bug report launchpad #1541082. A few days ago someone actually tried to help troubleshoot the problem and suggested that for my video card, the ATI Rage 128 Pro card, the driver should be "r128" . . . unfortunately after I installed that driver "X" was gone. I am able to get to a TTY to do stuff, but, as of today I haven't had a chance to get an xorg.conf file set up to see if I can change the driver to something else . . . just reporting the problem that occurred with r128.

Link to LP bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1541082

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