Public bug reported:
This may be a duplicate of 284408, but is more general than that bug
report (I added a comment to it).
I recently upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 beta. Under 8.10 I had run fglrx
driver downloaded from ati web site.
Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-MA790GP with built in radeon hd3300 and 4 G
of RAM (all slots filled). I've tried radeon, radeonhd, vesa, and fglrx
drivers. I've also tried to build most recent radeonhd from git, and
the most recent fglrx driver from amd/ati web site. In all cases the
screen freezes and then you cannot even ctrl-alt-f1 over to a console.
It is possible to ssh into the box. (Note that latest fglrx driver from
ati does not install due to version of X, etc., so it does not freeze,
it just does not install.)
Googling around it seems the problem may be related to having all memory
slots filled, i.e. if I pull two memory sticks and drop back to 2G then
it might work. I haven't tried that. But that might explain why someone
might believe 3300 works in Jaunty, if they tested on a system without
all memory slots filled.
I will be glad to assist in debugging this, but I'd appreciate working
w/ someone on Ubuntu's side who has an idea of what the problem might be
so I'm not just shooting in the dark. I've lost a good bit of time
trying to get some version of X running (all failed) and the system is
down for the count until I get this fixed. Thanks.
I may well have messed up my system by trying to compile radeonhd from
git for it to get something to work.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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radeon 3300 locks up screen w/ any driver
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356508
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