Lucid switchuser causes black screen

[NoOp]

On 08/04/2010 10:40 AM, arshad wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 19:05 -0700, NoOp wrote:
...
>> >> 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:

No. I was curious that turning KMS on resolved your problem. Generally
it is the other way around 'radeon.modeset=0' rather than
'radeon.modeset=1'. So I was curious how you came about turning it on &
thought that perhaps you may have gotten the suggestion from one of the
bug reports.