As you all know, I recently picked up a [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=239669|nice little box]. Windows runs on it just fine; thought I'd throw Ubuntu on it and see how that runs. I should also mention that there is a PCHDTV 3000 card in there as well.

The following is using Breezy Badger, 5.10.

After figuring out which network port was actually supported out of the box, the installation proceeded without any difficulties. Machine finishes installing packages, then reboots for first startup. Initializes the display and...

Garbage. I'm not talking "refresh rate is broken" - I'm talking the display has the x and the y down, but all I'm getting is a bizzare patterned bitmap.

Take a look at the disk I'm using, and notice that it's the i86 version. Go grab the AMD64 version, install that, exact same behavior occurs again. Boot into recovery mode, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade. Reboot, same thing all over again.

I'm going to take a Debian disk home with me today, but just wanted to see if anybody had any immediate insights, or if a specific logfile might help. I'm also going to post this on the Ubuntu forums and see if I can get any play. Note: I haven't installed NVidia's proprietary drivers yet. Might try that.

Nope, I know the pattern you're talking about, and that's not it. This looks like somebody randomly generated a 16x16 bitmap, then repeated it across the whole screen.