This problem of "vertical coloured lines on bootup dell inspiron 1501" still presents with 14.04. I just upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04, in the upgrade process the fix of adding radeon.nomodestet=1 at grub bootline got lost, and the vertical colored stripes came back when booting up. However, it seems that it seems it happened not as often.
I wish that the problem could be fixed. My laptop is a Dell INspiron 1501. I read in the list that it has related to Unity? Is it true? Thanks for your help! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572521 Title: vertical coloured lines on bootup dell inspiron 1501 (still in 13.04) Status in The Linux Kernel: Invalid Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: xorg Have just updated to 10.04, on a dell inspiron 1501, 2.6.32-21-generic just stops with coloured vertical lines on the screen. 2.6.31-20-generic loads ok. If left to go into sleep state due to inactivity, then when awoken works ok --- Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1501 Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=1b86148e-0a18-4a76-b4a0-5cbf3cbc36ed ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic Tags: lucid lucid Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686 UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare dmi.bios.date: 12/07/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: 2.6.3 dmi.board.name: 0UW744 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.6.3:bd12/07/2007:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1501:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn0UW744:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified: dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1501 dmi.product.version: Not Specified dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. system: distro: Ubuntu codename: lucid architecture: i686 kernel: 2.6.31-20-generic --- Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1501 Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.0-1ubuntu5 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=1b86148e-0a18-4a76-b4a0-5cbf3cbc36ed ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Tags: lucid lucid Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686 UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare dmi.bios.date: 12/07/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: 2.6.3 dmi.board.name: 0UW744 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.6.3:bd12/07/2007:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1501:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn0UW744:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified: dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1501 dmi.product.version: Not Specified dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. system: distro: Ubuntu codename: lucid architecture: i686 kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/572521/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
