Habbit: My motherboard is not failing, it is known that all the ATI RS480/RS482 motherboards are buggy... people are basically being sold (partially) broken hardware, something that is quite common these days. Such hardware needs various workarounds to function properly, often done in eg. Windows drivers.
hggdh: I don't really understand - it's naturally in a text mode, since if I leave the "splash" parameter in the boot line, the computer hangs completely, monitor shuts down and I can't get any output. I now tried using lower usplash settings, but it didn't change naything. -- Feisty crashes after grub if usplash enabled (amd64) https://launchpad.net/bugs/86666 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs