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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #214105
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 214105

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote : Re: Freeze with ati driver during boot on 8.04

Yes, absolutely, that lock-up is not a nice welcome to Ubuntu. Unfortunately we are fumbling in the dark with this AGP setting, and several tries have been made to fix it, but it's always broken for _some_ people. "Other distros" probably use the older version, like the one in 7.04. Can you please attach the log from 7.04? Or, install the old .deb from 7.04 and see if it works without any options in xorg.conf.

And the resolution detection seems certainly broken. ddc does not return 1440x900 so I am not sure why that was chosen, maybe it just fits with the frequency ranges and such. I have filed a bug upstream for this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15526