Hi all,

I have a curious one here. I have just installed Ubuntu on a machine that has an ATI Radeon 3450 video card installed.

If I boot the machine into recovery mode and then select 'normal boot' at the pause I get to a fully functional desktop that is using the fglrx driver. Compiz is happy and my graphics look great.

If I boot normally and just let the machine do its own thing I get just past the 'select' screen and the machine stops. There is no further disk activity and the monitor goes into standby mode.

I can't see anything relevant in any of the log files.

Does anyone have any ideas 'cos I've run out of ideas!

Thanks.

...I managed to answer my own question.

The issue is that of the Ubuntu splash screen.

I removed the 'splash' switch from Grub's menu.lst and everything works just fine.

I guess that the splash screen uses a resolution that my monitor doesn't like and that I could also specify a VGA= value but for now I'm happy :-)

Thanks for those who looked.