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Kubuntu 13.04 Live USB works, graphics crash when installed

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I'm trying to install Kubuntu 13.04 on my laptop from a live USB. The live USB works fine, graphics, wireless etc. It all works. Installation works as well, but when I try to start the newly installed Kubuntu from the hard drive I first get a flashing Kubuntu logo, then just flickering lines, mostly white.

From that point I can't switch to a terminal or do anything other than the MagicSysRq combo. The same thing happens if I start with xforcevesa.
If I start with nomodeset or radeon.modeset=0, I just end up with a black screen where the MagicSysRq combo doesn't work, but a quick press on the power button shuts the computer off immediately which tells me the kernel crashed.

The computer is a Dell Studio 1555 laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics card.

I have reinstalled without updates so that only packages from the live USB were installed.
How can the live USB work, but not the installed version?
Thank you for any help!

EDIT: To clarify, I never get past the kernel loading after installing to the hard drive.

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answered 2 Years ago horicgly · Accepted Answer

I managed to get the system to boot by physically connecting to the internet (with an ethernet cable) and using the recovery root terminal to install the fglrx driver. That allowed me to get into the system. From there, I realized the fglrx driver no longer supports my graphics card so I had to use this: https://launchpad.net/~makson96/+archive/fglrx
After installing fglrx-legacy everything seems to run smoothly.

Hopefully, this will be of use to someone else.