Another display problem question

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sun, 12/13/09, Russ Foster <rjf at russfoster.com> wrote:

> From: Russ Foster <rjf at russfoster.com>
> Subject: Another display problem question
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 8:57 PM
> I have a HP Pavilion laptop with an
> ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M graphics card,
> running Ubuntu 9.04 with Gnome desktop.
> 
> I tried running an ATI upgrade, but now my display is
> scrambled.  I can
> boot, go through GRUB, get the splash screen, but just as
> it switches into
> what should be the log in screen the display goes to
> garbage (it's
> scrambled, not completely blank).
> 
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 does nothing. But pressing the power button
> does begin an APCI
> shutdown--so I know it's not completely locked up.
> 
> I added 'driver "vesa" ' to xorg.conf, but the results are
> the same.  I also
> tried copying a previous xorg.conf, but that doesn't help
> either.  Nor does
> "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" have any affect.
> 
> If someone can point me in the right direction on what I
> can do, it would be
> great.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>
There seems to be some issues with the proprietary driver and you ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M graphics card.  See below:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1308964 -r

Also google for <your card ID+jaunty+driver> which brings up several hits of interest.  I didn't read all of it but you may have to end up using the non-proprietary driver.
Good reading,


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net