Lucid switchuser causes black screen

[arshad]

On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 19:05 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/31/2010 11:25 PM, emigrant wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 11:18 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> >> On 05/27/2010 06:53 AM, emigrant wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:27 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> >> >> On 05/24/2010 07:36 PM, arshad wrote:
> >> ...
> >> >> > no i'm using ati.
> >> >> > 
> >> >> ...
> >> >> 
> >> >> I finally just filed a new bug for my issue under the nvidia-96 package:
> >> >> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-96/+bug/585685>
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > on a side note,
> >> > im not only getting black screen,
> >> > sometimes i get freeze in the login screen once i hit enter after giving
> >> > the password for my a/c. (the display is still visible)
> >> 
> >> That sounds like a ATI KMS/Plymouth issue. You might try booting with
> >> 'radeon.modeset=0' in your linux line (grub2) or kernel line (grub1) and
> >> see if that changes anything.
> >> 
> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting
> >> https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=radeon.modeset%3D0
> ...
> > 
> > guys,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Add radeon.modeset=1 to the end of the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=.
> > in /etc/default/grub.
> > 
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting
> > 
> > i dont' know whether this is relevent or not. but it seems the problem
> > has gone now.. :D
> ...
> 
> Arshad, cool!.
> Do you have a link to bug etc for the recommendation?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

hi noop,
if you mean whether i opened a new bug. no i didn't not open a new bug.
is that what you were asking? :confused:

thanks a lot.