The usual technique is to boot into recovery/failsafe mode, set up the network, install stuff, make xorg.conf edits, and then continue to the normal boot or run startx.
However, you've got an r700 card, and the support for that is still quite new and fairly incomplete, so probably you should just wait on further testing until we have a new version of the driver with better support for your card. Meanwhile, you could try -radeonhd. -- [HD 4850] White screen of death - no escape https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314897 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
