Hard crash, "X" in middle of screen, on startup

Bug #46466 reported by Bill Sconce
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Machine: Compaq 1675 laptop.
AMD K6
video: agpgart: Detected ALi M1541 chipset

Normal boot crashes hard every time.
Booting in recovery mode allows starting X (and running as root, of course), and this is being written on the machine in question running in recovery mode.

"Hard crash" means no response to any key, any click, or any mouse movement: locked up.

I'm sure you'll want more information if this is the first report -- just tell me what.

-Bill

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towsonu2003 (towsonu2003) wrote :

thank you for your bug report. what's your kernel version? is this dapper or edgy?

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Bill Sconce (sconce) wrote :

Dapper. Your standard kernel version. I had to give up on Ubuntu and use another distribution. Sorry. I sent in that bug report back in May.

-Bill

Maybe I'll give Ubuntu another try with 6.10...

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towsonu2003 (towsonu2003) wrote :

thanks :) I assigned this to linux-source (kernel) of dapper because of the hard crash, and subscribed the laptop team in the hopes they might have a clue... if you try out edgy on the same laptop (which would be great, even with the live cd), please do not forget to add your comments here about that. the reason I couldn't confirm the bug is because I couldn't figure out what the cause might be. I don't see a duplicate of this though.

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Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This bug has had no activity for a considerable period. This is a check to see if there is still interest in investigating this bug report.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.15:
status: New → Incomplete
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Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

We are closing this bug report (no response to previous request for expressions of interest in this report). To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in linux-source-2.6.15:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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