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  1. Bug #129910
  2. Comment #159

Comment 159 for bug 129910

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Larry Hartman (larryhartman50) wrote : Re: tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy

I have had this bug for a long time in Feisty and now in Gutsy....instead of a black screen I received verticle colored lines filling the whole screen.

I have HP dv8000 with AMD with ATI X200M

The bug only exists when I use fglrx drivers.

I employed the solution of Kai (way above: radeonfb, etc) and also added vga=791 to kernel line in menu.list, then restart system. This resulted in a fix of a long standing issue for me, but did not make the system unusable. I am only a step or two above noob. I cannot speak for others, only myself, this has not been a critical issue. However, I know that others rely on this working than what I do. Thanx for the fix....I now have a way out if KDE or x crashes.