[wplug] Ubuntu - Video fails on boot.

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Weber, Lawrence A
<Lawrence.Weber at ansaldo-sts.us> wrote:
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> I have been having trouble installing Ubuntu 10.x and 11.x, and the newer Fedora distros.
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> This weekend I tried installing Ubuntu 11.04 Server on a PC with an ATI 9600 Pro video card.  During installation the screen mode is a low res text mode.  After the installation the system boots to a black screen.  Booting into GRUB shows a few menu item but all of the options lead to a black screen.  Is the ATI chip set not supported?  Can the support be added?
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Maybe try adding the nomodeset to the kernel boot parameters in GRUB.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/517222

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Mackenzie Morgan