Xorg freeze after installing 11.04 x64 on Toshiba Satellite A305

Asked by Amit Kotlovski

I used to have an older version of Ubuntu installed (I think 9.04) and wanted to check 11.04.
I installed using the liveCD while erasing the old installation.

At first the liveCD could not finish boot, ending up with a black screen.
Then I started passing the following boot parameters, which allowed it to open the desktop environment:
acpi=off
noapic
nolapic
nodmraid
nomodtest

I used it to install 11.04 on my hard drive.

Since then, I cannot boot into the ubuntu partition. Neither the normal, nor the rescue option finish boot successfully.

I booted into the liveCD again, chrooted to my hard drive, and ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, but it didn't help.

When the computer is stuck during boot, it gives me a black screen, and responds to nothing. No option to get to console, and Caps Lock light isn't responding.

I ran the `ubuntu-bug` utility for sending this bug report on the liveCD, as I currently can't start from the hard drive partition, so I guess it's xorg logs won't show why it couldn't load on the other partition.

I opened a bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/816256) but I haven't been getting any response to it so far.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

Try:

nomodeset

Should be ok. A lot of Intel GPUs need this boot option to get going.

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Amit Kotlovski (amitbk) said :
#2

I'll try it soon.
By the way, the GPU is ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series.

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Amit Kotlovski (amitbk) said :
#3

It worked.

I used "nomodeset" with the recovery mode, and then installed fglrx using jockey to use the proprietary drivers.
Ubuntu then started loading successfully.

Thanks!

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Amit Kotlovski (amitbk) said :
#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.