Public bug reported:
There is a number of issues with Gutsy and ATI FireGL v5250 video card
that have been reported and other bugs exist, THIS BUG IS NOT ONE OF
THEM, so please do not discard it as duplicate.
I want to report a bug in Gutsy Installer, that prevents me from using
even a text-mode console when trying to install a final release (not
beta) of Gutsy on a clean ThinkPad T60p system with ATI FireGL v5250
card.
Regardless of installation method, normal/safe graphics or alternate CD
text-based installer, eventually it gets into the cycle of switching
between two screens: either graphics garbage (random pixels) or very
limited text-mode, (vesa driver does not seem to work with v5250). It
does that 6 times and then locks itself in this very weird "text mode"
where it says that "X server had been shut down 6 times. Something bad
is going on. Waiting 2 minutes to try again".
I try to switch to another console with Alt+F2, but that console ALSO stays in
this weird video mode (I suspect it is 320x200) where I cannot really type any
bash commands for two reasons:
- Resolution is so low that maybe about 20 characters fit the screen
horizontally
- About 2/3 of vertical lines are off-screen, i.e. they're not shown so I
cannot see what I am typing
The bug I am reporting is that Ubuntu installer should have defaulted to
text mode regardless of video driver problems. It shall not fall into
this weird super-low resolution mode, effectively stalling the process.
This is how it worked with 7.04: videocard (as usual with ATI) failed to
initialize, X did not start, but at least I had a text console where I
could install and configure a proprietary driver manually.
With Gutsy, I cannot even do that.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Gutsy Installer fails using VESA driver on Thinkpad T60p with ATI FireGL v5250
video card
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155918
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