live cd - difference flight 4 and 5

[James Gray]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:19 am, Karl wrote:
>  Jonathan Jesse schreef:
>> On Thursday 23 March 2006 14:01, Karl wrote:
>>
>> With flight 4, i could boot without any problems (X).
>> Now with flight 5 i end up with a black screen.
>>
>> Does anyone knows if there are any changes on X between the two versions?
>> Or could it be another problem?
>> Is it an ATI card?  What kernel is it?  I get a black screen with my ATI
>> card on the latest kernel for some reason, haven't troubhshot it yet
>
>  - It's a ATI Radeon X600
>  - I'm not sur but i think ther kernel is 2.6.15 with Flight 5 (the same as
> flight 4?)

According to ATi:

Feb 9, 2006 - Driver 8.22.5 x86 and x86_64 platforms
"ATI Proprietary Linux Driver now supports Linux Kernel 2.6.15."

That's from their Linux driver RSS feed 
(http://www.ati.com/online/rss/atilinuxdriver.rss?OTC-rssfeedlinux).

So if Kubuntu LiveCD flight 5 has moved up to the 2.6.15 kernel AND their 
"restricted" drivers have a pre 8.22.5 ATi driver, you're out of luck.  Maybe 
try VESA mode instead?  Alternatively, you could download ATi's driver and 
fix it yourself (beware: ATi's driver installer is anal compared to 
nVidia...be prepared for a number of hoops to jump through).

Cheers,

James
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