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No display on ATI Rage XL 8MB r27

Asked by Bryce Browner

I'm relatively new to linux and I have an HP ProLiant DL380 G4 with an integrated ATI Rage XL 8MB r27 video card. I am attempting to run Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS on it. The installation disc displays everything fine on the monitor, but as soon as the installed environment is booted, my screen becomes a series of glitchy white lines and bars on a black background for a minute before becoming 2 glitchy horizontal white dashes at the top and middle of the screen on a black background. I have googled the issue, but I am apparently the only one who has it. Neither HP nor AMD provide Ubuntu or Debian drivers for the video card. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

The video drivers are part of the default install but the server install will not use this as it doesn't use Xorg. Have you tried setting the boot option:

nomodeset

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Bryce Browner (bbrowner) said : 		#2

I just tried booting with nomodeset and it did not produce any noticeable effect.

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Bryce Browner (bbrowner) said : 		#3

Setting the boot option vga=792 resolved the issue.