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[Nick Lib <nikolauslieb@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bryce,

I tried to run "apport-collect 569372", but as there does not appear to
be an update to this bug, I assume the attempt failed. As this is a
blank screen issue, I had no visual feedback to see why it failed.

Here's what I tried to do:
-booted the final release (not RC) normally
-waited for all disk activity to end (and then some -- I assume X had started and everything was loaded)
-pressed Alt+F2 to bring up the "Run Application" dialog
-entered "apport-collect 569372"
Result: no activity on CD or Internet router

As this appeared to fail, I tried switching to console 5 (Ctrl+Alt+F5)
and entering the command again (twice). This time I had both CD and
Internet activity (on the second attempt), although from what I can now
see on this page that apparently still failed. Perhaps the console
requires a login, before I could enter the command? Or maybe apport-
collect requires user interaction? Just in case, I tried pressing Enter
several times, hoping that default answers would do the trick.

In the meantime, I have worked around the issue and installed Lucid, by
temporarily disabling my Radeon HD5850 and using the integrated HD4200
of my 785G chip-set and then installing fglrx. After that I re-enabled
my HD5850, disabled my HD4200 and ran "aticonfig --initial". I will
attach the result of lspci -vvnn on this system, in the hope that it
makes no difference that it is now running fglrx on a proper
installation. Unfortunately, I can't find an xorg log which doesn't
mention fglrx on the system, so I assume the relevant logs were
overwritten, as I had to reboot a couple of times since fixing the
driver (sorry, this is my main system and I needed it to be usable).

In order to help fix this issue, I would be happy to help out with the
xorg log, if someone has a clever idea for retrieving it off the live
system, while effectively being blind. Or if necessary, I should be able
to try installing another copy in a new partition on the same machine
(then do the graphics switch; boot the system which won't work and
retrieve the log with the system which will work).

** Attachment added: ""lspci -vvnn" on HD5850 based system, but running fglrx on proper Lucid install"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47732748/lsp.result

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10.4 RC Live CD - Blank screen with Radeon 5870
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569372
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