[clue-tech] Ubuntu lock-up problems

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 16:51 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 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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