Comment 6 for bug 788859

I am beginning to wonder whether or not the blank desktop when ubiquity-dm (i.e., the graphical Install Ubuntu / Try Ubuntu selection screen) should have come up is really the same bug as the lack of automatic checking for 3D support and uninformative "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" error.

On a different machine with an ATi Radeon HD 5700 Series video card running the Oneiric amd64 20110526.1 daily-live CD, manually selecting "Try Ubuntu without installing" from the non-graphical boot menu yields a somewhat usable Unity desktop. (There are some serious usability bugs with Oneiric's Unity on this amd64 machine, which I hope to get around to searching for and, if unreported, report, sometime in the next couple of days.) However, booting normally (without bringing up the non-graphical boot menu) yields a blank, nonfunctional desktop instead of the ubiquity-dm window, just as on the i386 machine on which I originally reported this bug.

Should I split this bug report and create a second bug? I can edit the description to remove the text about the blank screen when ubiquity-dm should appear, and file a new bug about that problem.