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I've installed yesterday Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit version (as recommended) on my laptop. It was a fresh install, alongside Windows XP. On grub, after choosing normal boot on ubuntu, it starts loading things, but before starting the Ubuntu loading screen (with the dots) it stops flashing HDD activity led, and hangs there, and I need to hard shutdown the laptop. However, if I choose recovery mode on grub, and then choose Normal Boot on the options screen, it starts, but it doesn't allow to choose the native screen resolution (1440x900).

How can I solve the problem on normal boot? How can I grab more information about the reason it hangs? I thought that starting in recovery mode it showed the reason, but it starts and doesn't hang, so I can't extract any information about the issue.

Can you help me?

Thank you!

jorgedso
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Please read here how it is solved: (I haven't tried yet, I'm just posting someone's solution)

https://askubuntu.com/a/211040/101867

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jorgedso
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I had this before.

Try to do this in your terminal:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Look for:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Change it too :

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"

And update Grub:

sudo update-grub

This should fix stuff.

Dr_Bunsen
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Because the drivers (fglrx) are supported only to Xorg server version 1.12, and Ubuntu 12.10 comes with Xorg server version 1.13, it doesn't work.

Read here: What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD?

So, the solution is either downgrade Xorg version to 1.12 and keep Ubuntu 12.10 or stick with Ubuntu 12.04 and wait until fglrx supports Xorg version 1.13 and then upgrade to 12.10.

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jorgedso
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It's correct that the proprietary drivers from ATI wont support your card Radeon x2300 Mobility after 12.04 as discussed above. ATI dropped support,and there are some hacks floating around on how to downgrade x-server and stuff and maybe get it working in versions above 12.04 - I never did. Did you?

However, the open source driver does work, and it works quite ok for this card up until kernel 3.2x - unfortunately, after that it seems some regression has sneaked in and it hasn't worked since. 12.10 use kernel 3.5x-series, 13.04 uses 3.8x series and the problems still there. Maybe you could help out with a bugreport here. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1180557

WORKAROUNDS: If you add "nomodeset" in your boot-config after "quiet splash" it will probably work, but you'll get low-resolution etc. Or, if you upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 and kept your old kernels, you can boot even 13.04 with the 3.2x kernel. I do, and no visible problems so far. That's the solution I Would recommend for now. (And reporting the regression)

UPDATE: This problem is now a confirmed bug, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1180557 and seems to be upstreams,and even in the latest kernels for next version of Ubuntu. Hope they fix it before relase.

Beamie
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