Re: [Staffslug] Crash Bang Wallop - Ubuntu 11.10
On 08.02.2012 10:11, Kris Douglas wrote:
On 8 February 2012 09:51, <dave(a)staffslug.org.uk> wrote:
> I don't have any external drives attached.
>
> I'm not sure if it has something to do with the display as from what
> I can
> remember, I get a screen flicker as if it's about to display the
> Ubuntu
> 11.10 logo, which it doesn't then I get the kernel panic.
>
> When I eventually get it to restart fully the logo has changed into
> a very
> simple logo (looks like courier font), but I can shut down the
> machine,
> restart and the normal logo appears and starts without issue..
>
That sounds like the display driver. Plymouth drops to a text-style
version if there is a problem with graphics.
Does your PC have a removable graphics card? If not, have you tried
updating the graphics driver?
Failing that, it's impossible to rule-out failure of the card.
Sadly it's a
laptop, so can't do much with the graphics.
I shall have a look on the AMD site to see if there is an update.