Running An AMD Athlon XP 2200+ with an ATI 9800XT in AGP on a Gigabyte 7VAXP Motherboard with VIA chipsets, I have the same problem.
Everything worked fine with the "ati" driver. I upgraded to fglrx without rebooting, and everything still seemed fine. I added a "vga=795" line to my kernel, and rebooted, and suddenly it was broken. Now it just hangs when it should be starting X, and I have no terminals. Removing the "vga=xxx" line from my kernel fixed nothing. Changing the "fglrx" driver back to the "ati" driver in xorg.conf gave me back X, and it doesn't hang on booting anymore. I also have my terminals back. This was with the default, edgy-distributed, fglrx driver. -- [edgy][regression][rv280] black screen and full freeze when X starts https://launchpad.net/bugs/67487 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
