Monika Krug's first solution worked for me. Bug description: Running AMD64 version of Ubuntu 6.10 LiveCD, the system hangs with a black screen during boot (somewhere after changing the console font). The system is totally dead: I cannot change the status of caps lock, get a console with Ctrl-Alt-F1/7, kill X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, and the monitor goes into power save mode (no signal).
Solution: Comment out "dri" in the modules section of xorg.conf. Things that didn't work for me: * Changing AGP settings in BIOS: AGP 4x, AGP 4x8x, AGP fast writes disabled/enabled * Adding Option "AGPMode" "8" in device section of graphics card in xorg.conf. * Changing driver to radeon or vesa in device section of graphics card in xorg.conf. * I've tried safe graphics mode in startup menu, different resolutions etc - none of the options available in the startup/boot menu seems to make any difference. System: Shuttle SN95G5 with FN95 mother board. CPU: Athlon 64 2.0 GHz Graphics card reported by Windows XP as ATI Radeon X800 Pro AGP, 256 MiB RAM, and Ubuntu xorg.conf says processor R420. Monitor: Dell D1025HE connected with analog connector. 1 GiB RAM ----- Considering the severity of this bug, and the fact I've found it mentioned as early as oct-2005, combined with the severely broken splash screen (the gray one with severe graphical errors) and the fact my very "mature" monitor is not detected (which gives me 60 Hz refresh rate unless I change it in xorg.conf), I must say my first impression of Ubuntu is that it's extremely buggy. I'll use it to install Gentoo, but that's it. Bye, bye Ubuntu... Arvid -- [regression][rv280] black screen and console freeze when X starts - drm lockup https://launchpad.net/bugs/67487 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
