Minutes after I posted, and after a whole night of looking last night, I eventually found the answer.
1) download the radeonhd driver to a usb drive: http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd 2) boot to the command line (like you have a choice) and mount the drive: mkdir /media/USBDRIVE mount /dev/sdX1 /media/USBDRIVE where the X will vary, but when you plug in the drive a message should pop up and tell you that something was shoved in sb(something) and this is it 3) install the deb package and reboot sudo dpkg -i /media/USBDRIVE/xserver-xorg-video(blah blah blah).deb sudo reboot obviously don;t type the blah part, just whatever the full file name is (tab is your friend here) And there you go, very quickly you should have a login GUI screen, i;ve included the deb file as an attachment in case the version above upgrades and things break (how could that happen, ah the irony). ** Attachment added: "xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd_1.2.1-2build2_i386.deb" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19341695/xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd_1.2.1-2build2_i386.deb -- X fails to start on Radeon HD 2400 Mobility (Ubuntu 8.10 RC) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289026 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
