Comment 2 for bug 59314

I believe I have the same problem, was a showstopper for me as well, I have an Ati X700 PCIE in my laptop. But the screen did not go blank, but first displayed lots of vertical lines, then lots of horizontal lines before giving up and displaying a badly mangled X dialog that X couldn't be started.

anyway, shouldn't safe mode still use vesa drivers instead of ati? The open source drivers have never really worked for me, and I doubt they will in the near future.

Can i force the install CD to use the vesa driver? then I'd like to try it out again, as I'm desperate to use Monodevelop 0.11.