I encountered this too with some hardware that is unsupported by nv yet. I'm unable to boot the live cd because it always drops to safe graphics mode. Here's the failsafe logs.
** Attachment added: "failsafeX-backup-080925034200.tar" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17963854/failsafeX-backup-080925034200.tar ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- nv is chosen even if it doesn't support the card https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261977 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs