[Bug 872858] [NEW] Can't boot Ubuntu - Black Screen - Probably drivers?

[Kostas Vrouvas]

Public bug reported:

Hi, I have an HP pavilion g6 1215ev, it has a AMD cpu and AMD gpu, everytime i boot ubuntu from a cd or a usb, opens the purple screen and just goes black forever! I tried other distribution too, but i had the same results ( i tried Mint, fentora 15, Debian,). some of the distributions just stuck on a command line forever. I searched the internet about this and found that possibly is an issue with the drivers, i tried to run it with radeon.modeset=0, noapic=off, xforcevesa but nothing happened! i tried both 32bit and amd64 versions. Only distribution that booted and is installed completely is openSUSE 11.04
It must be the graphics drivers.

more info here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+question/173548

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Can't boot Ubuntu - Black Screen - Probably drivers?

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi, I have an HP pavilion g6 1215ev, it has a AMD cpu and AMD gpu, everytime i boot ubuntu from a cd or a usb, opens the purple screen and just goes black forever! I tried other distribution too, but i had the same results ( i tried Mint, fentora 15, Debian,). some of the distributions just stuck on a command line forever. I searched the internet about this and found that possibly is an issue with the drivers, i tried to run it with radeon.modeset=0, noapic=off, xforcevesa but nothing happened! i tried both 32bit and amd64 versions. Only distribution that booted and is installed completely is openSUSE 11.04
  It must be the graphics drivers.

  more info here:
  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+question/173548

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