The steps you take to recover your system (dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg; aticonfig --initial -f) do much more than changing xorg.conf. I have two possible suspicions.
1: Due to the age of the system I suspect that it's an AGP board, correct? Maybe the sequence or timing of loading fglrx and the AGP drivers is causing problems. When in recovery mode, instead of your steps above try "rmmod fglrx; modprobe fglrx" and resume booting. Does that help? 2: Instead of the steps above, try this in recovery mode before you resume booting: rm /etc/ati/amdpcsdb. Do NOT delete /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default, though. /etc/ati/amdpcsdb is where the driver remembers settings in between X sessions. It's possible that a combination of remembered settings in amdpcsdb and the cold reboot (which reinitializes the hardware) triggers the problem on your hardware. When you reboot from Windows, it doesn't completely reinitialize the hardware. Some register values, clocks, even parts of the framebuffer are preserved from how the Windows driver initialized the hardware. -- [Kubuntu] xorg.conf needs to be reconfigured at each reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429419 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
