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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This issue may affect me too.  I just grabbed 64bit Karmic alpha 5 and
tried to boot from CD.  I cannot get a working graphics desktop even in
safe mode.  I see the splash screen and the little rising transporter
room effect, the cursor spins and then goes blank.  Then the splash
screen comes back and the whole cycle repeats a few times.

Eventually, I end up with a screen of complete trash.  It's colorful and
pretty but unusable ;).  I can't even get a safe mode desktop on which
to try the PPA (if it's still relevant for alpha 5).

This is a brand new i7-920 with an ATI HD4670.  It has only Vista on it
currently but I plan to dual-boot and would like to skip Jaunty and go
straight to a fresh Karmic install.  Note that I've booted Jaunty from
CD and had to do nothing special to get a usable desktop, although
compiz does not work.  I've got a dual-head setup with two 1900x1200
Dell monitors.

I'm happy to help test things if I can get a usable desktop.  Please
advise. (Bryce, feel free to ping me on irc).

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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Ubuntu unusable by default with ATI HD4670 video card + monitor on DVI link (blank screen).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387013
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