Comment 7 for bug 531635
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| Psychotron (redm) wrote Re: Kernel oops with radeon module, kernel modesetting fails | #7 |
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I have the same problem I guess. I'm using a Radeon X800 with chip R420. Setting the nomodeset option makes the system boot, but there is no 3D acceleration. Which is pretty much a show stopper nowadays. It used to work fine after all, before the kernel and xorg people decided to push unfinished stuff on users.
I'm using Lucid with kernel 2.6.32-24-generic. I also tried kernels from the mainline ppa: 2.6.32-
Please fix this! It really frustrating and doesn't make a good impression, if the first run of your new Ubuntu just freezes on boot... And this bug seems to affect quite a few systems with older Radeon cards. My system is not too exotic I think and I don't quite understand how a 4 month old LTS release doesn't even boot on common hardware! Leave alone being fixed in a reasonable time...