I can confirm that the life CD boots into a black screen on this GPU. In my case though the safe mode vesa driver succeeds booting into a 1280x1024 resolution. (but using vesa is a workaround already and even an unstable at that, so that difference should not matter much)
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Intrepid Upgrade+Live CD: Radeon RV280 9200 Blank Screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297119 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs