AMD A4-Series APU A4-3400 compatibility

[Thomas Olsen]

On Friday 09 December 2011 11:11 Mark Greenwood wrote:
> It's plymouth. You'll probably find that if you boot into recovery mode and
> then just select 'continue normal boot', you'll boot up just fine.
> Otherwise 'nomodeset' is the way.

Freakin' Plymouth again - nothing but trouble :-/

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/556372

>  If there are proprietary video drivers for your card, install them. It
> fixed the problem for me.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 9 Dec 2011, at 01:42, theuteck at gmail.com wrote:
> > My Atom system does something similar.  I have to pass 'nomodeset' to
> > grub and and add it to /etc/default/grub to see the video.  If I boot
> > into recovery mode I can still see the screen so I can make the edit,
> > so hopefully that is the same for you.
> > 
> > On Thursday, December 08, 2011 05:04:38 PM Jim Cunning wrote:
> >> Update:  I purchased the product and tried to install 11.04.  The
> >> install CD first displays "error: prefix is not set", then grub gives
> >> me
> >> the choice of "Start Kubuntu" or "Check disc for defects"
> >> 
> >> Regardless of which selection I choose, the screen goes blank, and
> >> eventually the monitor reports "No signal".  Despite this, I believe
> >> the
> >> system is booting because I can hear and see CD drive activity.  If I
> >> select "Check disc for defects" the drive remains active for quite
> >> some
> >> time, confirming my suspicions.  The problem is that the video never
> >> comes back after the initial grub screen.
> >> 
> >> The behavior is the same with 11.10, however 10.04 LTS does boot,
> >> successfully and install completely.  The problem with 10.04 LTS is
> >> that
> >> the video is only 1280x1024 on a 1920x1080 monitor, and eth0 is
> >> recognized and sends DHCP requests, but never receives the responses
> >> from the router.  I know the LAN interface works with Windows 7 in the
> >> remaining partition on the disk.
> >> 
> >> I also tried installing from a USB stick and got the same results as
> >> with install CDs.
> >> 
> >> Anyone know what kind of grub/kernel boot parameters I can used to get
> >> a
> >> video display to continue a 11.04 or 11.10 install?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jim Cunning
> >> 
> >> On 12/06/2011 09:22 AM, uteck wrote:
> >>> That is one of the new Bobcat or Llano chips., I Googled for "ubuntu
> >>> bobcat apu"
> >>> The AMD forum has some good reviews of it working very well with
> >>> 11.04
> >>> http://www.amdzone.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=532&t=138280&start=100
> >>> <http://www.amdzone.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=532&t=138280&start=10
> >>> 0>
> >>> 
> >>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Jim Cunning
> >>> <jcunning at cunning.ods.org
> >>> 
> >>> <mailto:jcunning at cunning.ods.org>> wrote:
> >>>    Hello all,
> >>>    
> >>>    I am looking at purchasing an Acer desktop computer with an
> >>>    AMD
> >>>    A4-Series APU A4-3400(2.7Hz) processor.  I assume the CPU
> >>>    itself
> >>>    is
> >>>    x86_64 compatible, but was wondering about the graphics
> >>>    compatibility. I didn't see anything from Google to give me a
> >>>    clue.  Anyone have experience with this processor? Any
> >>>    caveats?
> >>>    
> >>>    Thanks,
> >>>    Jim Cunning
> >>>    
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Thomas Olsen