Ubuntu 14.04 & AMD FirePro™ 2270

[Ian A Taylor]

Pete/Colin

Thanks for reply

To answer questions

I checked the install media and no faults were found.
Which,, since I have utilized this usb stick, several times, to 
successful install 14.04 ; is what I would expect.

When machine boots to the grub menu

If you select ubuntu

you see
one line I have forgotten
then
loading initial ram disk

then the screen goes blank

pressing cntrl-alt-2 gets me nothing
(I had tried that althou forgot to say so, sorry)

also pressing esc shows nothing on screen

So I have no idea how to load the new driver

Is there a way to add it to the install medium

Regards

Ian Taylor

On 04/11/14 18:50, Pete Smout wrote:
 >
 >
 > On Nov 4, 2014 4:54 PM, "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > On 4 November 2014 16:39, Ian A Taylor <iat at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
 > > > Sir/Madam
 > > >
 > > > I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 onto my desktop.
 > > >
 > > > My desktop contains an AMD FirePro™ 2270
 > > >
 > > > I have Scientific Linux 6.5 working on this machine no problems
 > > >
 > > > My usb install sticks works
 > > > When I boot to it and test Ubuntu 14.04 it works ok
 > >
 > > Did you run the image test?  Boot into the stick and hit a key when it
 > > shows the keyboard icon at the bottom and select the test image or
 > > test files or something similar.  Can't remember what it is says
 > > exactly.  Probably it will be ok since it installed, but worth
 > > checking.
 > >
 > > Colin
 > >
 >
 > In my capacity of minister for stateing the obvious, have you tried 
-ctrl-alt-F1 whilst the screen is blank? This should drop you to a shell 
(full screen terminal)
 >
 > Also try hitting escape whilst it's booting to see the text boot log 
and note any errors!
 >
 > Pete S
 >
 > Minister for stating the bleeding obvious ;D
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Thanking you.

Yours sincerely



Ian Taylor
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