Yeah, using this method you can change your display driver for the live CD to vesa, and then reload gdm, which will run, though somewhat slowly (IMO). It checked out.
So pretty much at boot screen, you hit f6 or whichever button brings up custom boot line. Then delete the "[COLOR="Blue"]splash[/COLOR]" from it. Hit enter. Sit there while it looks like it's doing nothing, eventually some console stuff will roll past, it will switch to screen 7, which will then power off. At this point you have use of your console screens still, thankfully. ([COLOR="Lime"]ctrl-alt-f1[/COLOR]) then change xorg.conf to use [COLOR="Blue"]vesa[/COLOR] ([COLOR="Blue"]sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf[/COLOR]). Change this by adding a [COLOR="Blue"]load "vesa"[/COLOR] under [COLOR="Blue"]module[/COLOR] section, the same section as load glx and dri and all the other ones. next, under "Device" section: change [COLOR="Blue"]Driver "ati"[/COLOR] to [COLOR="Blue"]Driver "vesa"[/COLOR] and write out the changes. go back to screen 7 ([COLOR="Lime"]ctrl+alt-f7[/COLOR]) and hit [COLOR="Lime"]ctrl-alt-bkspc[/COLOR] to reload gmd. My machine then loaded a laggy vesa powered gdm session @ 1400x1050 res (who knows how it came up with that res, possible I didn't enter vesa stuff correctly in xorg.conf) which worked fine until I tried to switch resolutions, which made it crash again. Anyhow, I guess that gets the live cd "working." -- Install 6:10 Failure: Black screen at Live Desktop Stage https://launchpad.net/bugs/67487 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
