13.04 Video frozen / unresponsive
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 x64 Desktop using the net installer (I needed
RAID1 and encryption).
The install went fine, but every time I boot up my new installation, video
(X server?) freezes about 20 seconds after the login screen is displayed.
This is usually enough time for me to login.
I know it's only my video that's freezing because I selected
openssh-server during install, and I can ssh into the box just fine.
However, from all appearance on the machine itself, absolutely nothing is
happening. Pressing CTRL + ALT + F1 when it's frozen does nothing.
Using ssh, I was able to set the nomodeset option in /etc/default/grub as
was recommended in several places. But that didn't help. It seemed to take
a little longer, but my video froze just the same on the next boot up.
Out of desperation, I added noapic, nolapic, and acpi_osi= to my grub
configuration and rebooted. Now, I don't even get the prompt to decrypt my
partition on startup. Oops.
During this entire process, I had only keyboard, network (ethernet), and
video connected. No other components or peripherals.
Any ideas what's going on or how to fix it? I think I can put the grub
options back from the LiveCD, but so far, I haven't been able to get that
to boot either (probably for the same reason).
Motherboard (Rev 5.0 with F3 BIOS)
CPU
Video Card
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