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Re: Init 3 Ubuntu does not launch from Graphical interface.


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From: Rick Green (email_suppressed_at_lugwash.org)
Date: Mon 05-Mar-2007 03:04:00 PM EST


On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steven M Campbell wrote:

> Sean, try using CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-F7 while in run level 5 to switch
> back and forth between text and graphical several times and see if the
> problem occurs. I'm just hearing that some of the ATI drivers have the same
> issue and using the ATI proprietary driver solves it. Apparently we, the
> FOSS community simply aren't given enough information to handle the state
> restores on many graphics cards. My bad for thinking it was only the NVidia
> products.

  I just happen to be sitting here testing Kubuntu Feisty herd 5 on my new
laptop with a radeon 9600.
I can switch from console 7 (X, 1280x800) and 1 (text) multiple times with
no visual or functional degradation.

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