I can confirm this bug with my Matrox Parphelia P650 (dualhead) on my Ubuntu Edgy Eft system. I can also confirm that I didn't had this trouble with Ubuntu Dapper Drake. These are the steps I took, I'll upload my screenshots afterwards :
<ul> <li>Downloaded and installed Ubuntu Edgy Eft, but X didn't start up</li> <li>Downloaded and installed Ubuntu Edgy Eft <b>alternate</b>, install went smoothly</li> <li>After install a reboot, grub started up, but after choosing the first line I got a black screen, needed to wait quiet a long time, until X started up. Unfortunately it was a total mess (see screenshot afterInstall). I tried to get a console, by pressing ctrl + F1, but I just got more mess (see screenshot afterInstallctrlF1)</li> <li>The only thing I could do was reset, but this time I choose the recovery mode when grub starts up. I did an apt-get upgrade and an apt-get dist-upgrade and although I got a different situation, it wasn't what i wanted (see screenshot afterupgrade). Again, ctrl+f1 didn't work (see screenshot afterUpgradectrlF1).</li> <li>Back to recovery mode again, to install the unofficial Matrox driver from http://www.tuxx-home.at/ (it was version x86_32-1.4.4.4). After installing linux-headers-386 I tried startx, but it didn't complete the login (it only showed the splash screen). The console gave me some errors so that I figured out that I had to disable stylus, cursor and eraser in the ServerLayout section. I also disabled the section DRI and the Load dri, because that was asked in the documenation of the Matrox driver. After that startx worked.</li> <li>Unfortunately, after rebooting and choosing the first line in the grub-menu, I got that black screen again, just until gdm started up. But it seemed that parts of my screen where "split in two", eg. my mouse cursor as you can see in screenshot afterDriverInstall. Luckily a simple ctrl+alt+backspace solved the problem. Because the boot took so long and because of the black screen and because of having to do ctrl+alt+backspace every time I asked the newsgroup be.comp.os.linux what the problem could be. They advised me to remove the splash option in /boot/grub/menu.lst</li> </ul> After all that trouble, I finally have a working system again, just like in good old Dapper Drake times. I really hope this bug can be solved when Feisty Fawn gets released, so that Parhelia users can install Ubuntu in a user friendly way. Anyway, good luck! ** Attachment added: "Screenshot after installing with alternate" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5571725/afterInstall.jpg -- Graphical installer not working with Matrox Parhelia cards https://launchpad.net/bugs/64379 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
