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  1. Bug #272406
  2. Comment #32

Comment 32 for bug 272406

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Victor Van Hee (vvanhee) wrote : cannot start gnome X in intrepid (gray screen with horizontal thin flashing black lines)

When I load up the latest live 64 bit ubuntu intrepid CD, I can't get
into the GUI. When Gnome tries to come up, I get odd
rainbow-like patterns around the edges of the screen fading into
the center (this might be intentional, but I've never seen it in
Hardy). Then a blank gray screen appears with intermittently
flashing horizontal thin black lines.

Hitting Shift-Alt-F1 takes me here to file this bug. I have an ASUS
F8 Sp (F8Sp) notebook with ATI Radeon HD 3650 graphics card.

Gnome works just fine on this laptop with the proprietary (fglrx)
driver in Hardy, but not this new, more Intrepid version.

Let me know if I can provide any other details.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/Xorg
Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.5.0-1ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-3-generic (buildd@crested) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1hostname6) ) #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 16:18:52 UTC 2008

SourcePackage: xorg-server
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-3-generic x86_64
Xrandr:

setxkbmap:

xdpyinfo:

xkbcomp: