Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #314897
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 314897

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Christian Convey (christian-convey) wrote : Re: White screen of death - no escape

I made a little progress. I downloaded ATI's proprietary driver (version 8.561), and installed it from single-user mode.

When I next booted, X didn't show me the white screen, but instead showed me a dialog box (grey on a black background) stating that there were problems with starting X, and it gave me several options. I think they included reconfiguring X, starting in low-graphics mode, and one other.

Anyway, I believe I started in low-graphics mode, just so I could log into my deskop. Then I went to the restricted drivers gui. It showed me a proprietary ATI driver being available, so I selected that. I was hoping that it would give me better luck than my manual installation of an ATI driver, mentioned at the beginning of this comment.

Sadly, when I rebooted, I got the same experience: the X dialog giving me a few options of how to deal with its inability to start.