[clue-tech] Ubuntu lock-up problems

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:42:05 -0700
"Michael J. Hammel" <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:

> If you mean the multiple colored bars that go left to right during
> boot on F10, I believe that's a frame buffer display and not X.  That
> could mean that the kernel driver for your video chipset is not
> working properly with your hardware.

As a side note the only hardware that supported KMS at f10 release time
was the radeon r300/r400/r500 cards I think. ;) 

The colored bars are just a text mode version. 

You can get a cool fb version by passing a 'vga=' parameter to your
kernel boot line. 

kevin
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