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[Richard Vajdel <1264835@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okey,  I 've had exactly the same problem with OpenMandriva( Beta
worked, RC didn't work), so I filled bug on their bugzilla and this is
conclusion.

OpenMandriva developer said I should try to run some commands resp. add some commands in to boot.
Here is what happened.

alt+ctrl+f1= nothing
i915.invert_brightness=1 = Nothing
xorg.blacklist= intel = nothing
xorg.blacklist= ati = works
xorg.blacklist= intel +nomodeset = works
xorg.blacklist= ati+nomodeset = works
nomodeset itself without additional commands=works

Here is his reaction:

"It's not to much of a mystery now. It is to do with the plymouth bootsplash and kernel graphics mode setting. Basically what is happening is that plymouth is initialising graphics on the intel chip and then xorg is auto-detecting the ati adapter and switching to that. Because the the drm kernel modules are already loaded for the Intel hardware the ati driver cannot unload them and thus the ati hardware does not get it's kernel module drivers loaded which basically comes down to the fact that you get a black screen.
It worked in the beta because we were loading the uvesa frame buffer driver but that caused problems with other cards. Currently automated graphics detection is a bit of a minefield to say the least!!

For the moment it probably best that you add one of the working configs
that you have tested to the default boot line as I described."

I've thought it would be helpful

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Title:
  Low graphic mode

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  After installation process of 14.04 and 13.10 I get "low graphic mode"
  prompt but actually with no low mode activated ( nothing happening).
  Live enviroment does the same. Ubuntu 12.04.3 is working out of the
  box.

  I´ve got HP Pavilion g 17 with AMD Radeon HD 8670 M and Intel.

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