Okay, I also get a black screen with an outlined "x" in the center trying to 
boot up the Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy Live CD. Tried everything and then came to 
ByteJuggler's fix and it worked to at least get me to a desktop.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/67487/comments/81

Now, to see if I can get a clean install going.

MB: A7V266-E (BIOS default settings at 1.66GHz - 133/33 bus speed)
CPU: AMD Athlon 2000+
RAM: 1024mb
Video: 3dfx Voodoo 3000 (set at 4x)
Monitor: HP A4331

Bruce

P.S.  You folks are really great.  I totally respect and appreciate your
insight and granular intelligence on this issue with less than the
latest equipment.  Such high level understanding for such impoverished
people.  This is the truest statement of open source, indeed.  If the
collective can get this fixed and patched so that these issues are not
dealt with in Feisty, you all deserve brand spanking new machines.
Don't let the developers create a MS situation where nothing is backward
compatible.  That will sink the entire project.  Times are really tough
economically.  They just raised the minimum wage here in CA but then
raised the bridge toll by $1.  A wash indeed. -bmw

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[regression][rv280] black screen and console freeze when X starts - drm lockup
https://launchpad.net/bugs/67487

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