madbiologist, Thanks for the information.
I just tried the extra stick of RAM again (adding an extra 2Gb to the existing 2Gb). Unfortunately, I did not get a responsive desktop on either of my bootable partitions Natty 11.04 with kernel 2.6.38-8 Oneric 11.10 with kernel 3.0.0-5 Cheers, Tony -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/756540 Title: ATI graphics card fails when RAM increased to 4Gb on Natty Beta To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/756540/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

