Comment 44 for bug 272406

I downloaded alpha 6 a few days ago I think and tried to run live cd but I
run into the same problem. I'm using an asus laptop with radeon mobility hd
3650 card.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Bryce Harrington <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> I've uploaded 6.12.0 to Jaunty a little while ago (and corresponding
> kernel fixes were put in last week) which I believe fixes this issue.
> Can you please test on latest Jaunty and confirm the issue is gone?
>
> --
> [HD 3650] cannot start gnome X in intrepid (gray screen with horizontal
> thin flashing black lines)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272406
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>
> Status in X.org XServer - ATI gfx chipset driver: Confirmed
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-ati” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> 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:
> [lspci]
> 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960
> Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 03)
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1517]
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Mobilitiy
> Radeon HD 3650 [1002:9591]
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1633]
>
>