I think it's a radeon-specific bug. The atyfb (iirc, not near my laptop atm) driver doesn't work with a lot of radeon cards. My old Dell Inspiron 8000 did the same thing with that driver, too.
The reason I logged it against this was my suspicion that the Ubuntu- specific(?) "splash" extension was making a card-specific choice to try to use a better framebuffer driver than "vesafb". Failing in this manner would be fine, but it does exactly the same thing with the "Safe VGA" menu option from the Live/InstallCD. That menu option should *definitely* not use card-specific framebuffer drivers for the splash; either VGA or VesaFB are the safest. Perhaps allow "splash=vesa" and "splash=vga", and add those options to the LiveCD installation menu? -- "splash" causes fade-to-white on Toshiba Satellite M40X (ATI Radeon Mobility X600) https://launchpad.net/bugs/51402 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
