In Feisty final, the same symptoms occur. The only different thing is that when X fails to initialize, I somehow managed to reach the login in tty ( I couldn't do it before). >From here I could edit the xorg.conf, and confirm that vesa driver was being >used.
Since this bug is related to ati driver, I suppose what I see is another unrelated bug. Maybe a vesa driver bug? -- [regression][rv280] black screen and console freeze when X starts - drm lockup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67487 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs