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[Martin Maney <maney@xxxxxxxxx>]

This may be the same.  I just did a fresh install from USB of AMD64
karmic alpha 5 alternate installer to a blank hard drive.  All seemed to
go well until the install completed and it rebooted.  Got to GDM screen,
there was an odd horizontal, smeared "reflection" of the animated "I'm
busy" icon, but otherwise looked good.  Login, it seems to accept it and
screen goes black for a few seconds, then returns to GDM.  After having
this happen once or twice I thought to switch to a console to get X out
of the loop, and at that point the machine (or at least the display)
locked up (displaying GDM login with maybe 1/4" of corrupted video
across the top of the screen).  No further investigation is planned,
since grub2 never gives me a chance to make any changes to the boot to
avoid getting X started (bug report filed).  :-(

This is an Athlon X2 5600+ in an Asus M3A78-EM with 4G of ECC RAM that's
been perfectly happy for the last half year running Ibex (64 bit) and
more recently Ibex upgraded to Jaunty (32 bit, because it was swapped
into what had been a 32-bit only system).  So it's likely something in
the twisty mess of X and DRI and the "HD3100" integrated video (780G
chipset) that's causing this.

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[rv620] Karmic Alpha 5 resets the GPU repeatedly during bootup, then freezes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/424712
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