I can confirm this bug. I have a ATI 9600 and the X-Server completely hangs my system when starting. The screen blanks and I cannot use keyboard or mouse etc , only hard reset! This happens with the live-CD (Dapper, Edgy) and with the configuration after install. It seems that the problem is dri-related, since disabling dri gets the radeon working - but 3D is of course very slow. Also vesa-driver is a solution. This bug annoys me since 5.10 - and it has not been fixed since. In FC6 the card is set up correctly - no problems with the radeon driver there and 3D-performance looks much better there (I will check this). The FC6 Xorg.conf is very short, no extensions loaded at all - but all software (tvtime, OpenGL sreensavers...) is working - even 3D desktop. The fglrx-drivers worked fine for me in 6.6 and 5.10 (with dri, without overlay), I have not tried them so far in edgy.
By the way: The "Safe Graphics mode" on the live-install-CD doesn't help also, which seems kind of stupid to me. This should use the vesa-driver or ask the user, which driver to use... The only way to install is alternate cd... I don't know if this is related to the dri bug with the Radeon 7000 series Regards, Peter -- xorg DRI to hang with ATI 9600 pro https://launchpad.net/bugs/37678 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
