Here's my story with the ATI HD 3850. While installing 8.10 right off-the-bat I had to run the installation on the safe graphics mode option otherwise my monitor would show 'black', but in the sense that there was a signal being sent from the graphics card like when a screen saver is about to launch. 8.10 provided the proprietary FGLRX driver v 8.54.3 and it also installed and configured the ATI Catalyst Control Center 2.1. At the time I had my TV plugged in through the S-Video. I shut down and then restarted the next day for which boot up was normal, but right after the Ubuntu splash/load orange bar screen, my monitor went black again and my mouse or keyboard were unresponsive as I tried to do a CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to the terminal - no dice. I had reboot in recovery mode and launch xfix. After that I was able to get to my desktop, but appearance was horrible; my resolution and wallpaper were preserved at 1024x768, but the colors were all distorted as it I were looking at it with thermal imaging (like the Predator). I was still able to make out the menu and sub-menus to notice that the FGLRX drivers were deactivated in Administration>Hardware Drivers. This was expected since I ran the xfix in recovery mode. I re-activated and rebooted and my screen was drawn normally again. I worked on my machine for a while and then shutdown for the day.
The next day, same darn thing happened! I had to redo my steps. The following day, same thing. I went through this process several times and it was really getting annoying, until I decided to unplug my TV - the strange thing is that the Catalyst Center showed my TV as display "1" and my monitor as display "2" - I feel that it should have been the other way around. Anyway, after unplugging my TV, I rebooted and my box was able load itself normally. The only thing I get now is when watching .avi's on Totem I get the annoying flicker, but when I do fullscreen mode, the flicker is not present. I haven't tried watching DVD's yet. Compiz effects like the wobbly windows, etc. work fine, but when I do the ALT-TAB to scroll through the open apps, the little screens are blank. I will do some testing on TV-OUT to see what works best. Is it time to get an Nvdia GeForce 9800? I won't give up on ATI just yet and I don't want to go back to Windows on my machine!! My setup: ASUS P5Q Pro G. Skill 4GB RAM (2x 2GB modules) DDR2 SDRAM Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 ghz Samsung 2232BW 22" Widescreen LCD Corsair 650W PSU I've uploaded my xorg log representing the successful boot just in case. ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21107205/Xorg.0.log -- Black screen booting on Kubuntu 8.10 Beta Live CD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279004 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
