[ubuntu] Livecd freezes on cursor, ati rv250

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Originally Posted by mapes12 Sorry for asking the blindingly obvious but have you tried an Alternate CD installation? My systems doesn't like the Live CD's either but Alternate's always work

hi,
no i have not, but of course there's no question that the alternate cd installation will work - since the problem is with the ati driver, and the alternate cd is in text mode. the question is, what will happen /after/ installation, when i try to boot.

i dont want to install until i can be sure that i can get the ati driver to work. i cannot use the vesa driver, as this is on a laptop where i run dual-screen, which only ati driver will let me do. vesa doesn't even see the vga port and the attached external screen.