Hi there! Ubuntu 7.04 (x86_64) ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon X850 XT (R480) fglrx 8.36.5 (XORG 7.2)
Some (i guess..) interesting news.... On my Athlon 64 based PC I had Edgy (6.10 - x86-64 - custom Kernel 2.6.20amd64) installed, and I had the "notorious" problem with U-SPLASH...all I could obtain was a black and white U-SPLASH..... After automatic upgrade to Fesity (7.04 - Kernel 2.6.20-15generic) I had the same problem described here....no U-SPLASH, kernel panic (with blinking leds on my keyboard). The "trick" of setting resolution in usplash.conf and add VGA= XXX to menu.lst worked.....but only when using 2.6.20-15generic kernel ! As I have bug #77734 (Disk Read Errors during boot-time caused by probe of invalid partitions) on my PC...I always need to use a "costom kernel" (by patching a kernel source before to install it). So I downloaded from Ubuntu repository the 2.6.20.3 kernel source, patched it (msdos.c.tj.7.patch against msdos.c), compiled, installed....also installed ATI fglrx 8.36.5 (it was really hard to install...but I could do that...) and all I obtained was: - my problems with "Buffer I/O error) SOLVED (like when I used custom kernel 2.6.20amd....based on 2.6.20-0); - U-SPLASH again causing "kernel panic" with leds blinking... I suddenly applied the "trick" solving U-SPLASH problem on 2.6.20-15generic......BUT NOWAY IT DOESN'T WORK on 2.6.20.3!!! Whatever I set in "usplash.conf" and "menu.lst" the problem persists.....when booting 2.6.20.3 it crashes with a kernel panic! If I put VGA=ask in menu.lst, when I boot it prompts the following: VIDEO ADAPTER: VESA VGA MODE COLSxROWS 0 0F00 80 x 25 1 0F01 80 x 50 2 0F02 80 x 43 3 0F03 80 x 28 4 0F05 80 x 30 5 0F06 80 x 34 6 0F07 80 x 60 7 0100 40 x 25 ENTER MODE NUMBER OR 'SCAN': (....if I enter 'scan' the list will enrich with the following): 8 0123 132 x 25 9 0132 132 x 43 a 0133 132 x 44 Of course NONE of this choice (resolutions) works......it hangs with a kernel panic.... :( Coclusions: 1) The trick described here (set usplash.conf and add VGA=XXX in menu.lst) seems working only on "original" kernels (but I can't use...because bug #77734 can cause serious damage on the MSDOS partition co-exsisting on my RAID 0+1 array...FAKE RAID) 2) By the above chart it looks like on booting the system doesn't recognize a "real" VGA capability (very very low resolutions available), so of course when trying to display U-SPLASH it fails.... I'm not very expert and I hope I was clear enough. Any idea? Suggestions? Thanks to all. Greetings. -- Feisty crashes after grub if usplash enabled (amd64) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86666 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
