On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 01:55:17AM -0000, Eduard wrote: > Steve, sorry for the late reply, was away from my main machine.
> Apparently that fixed it! Added the line and voila, it booted without > the fglrx driver. Ok, cool. That confirms that it's a bios->drm video handoff problem. > I don't see what are you guys talking about the degraded boot > experience? When it boots it still shows the Ubuntu logo and the dots > under it, then transitions smoothly to the desktop (I have autologin on) The degradation may not be anything that you care about. :) Not doing the video handoff from bios to kernel means there will be additional flickers (and possibly resolution changes) at boot time that we have tried to eliminate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/975931 Title: purple screen freeze with AMD 6850 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-gfxpayload-lists/+bug/975931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
