2007/10/12, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:44:56PM +0000, Tormod Volden wrote: > > Tormod Volden <lists.tormod <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > What I have been doing on my 240MB (256MB minus 16MB for the graphics > > > card) > > > laptop is to log in to a "Failsafe xterm" session and launch ubiquity from > > > there. This way to skip the gnome circus has always made it. You might > > > prefer > > > to start the metacity& window manager before starting ubiquity. > > > > > > Maybe this would be easy enough to add as an option to the gdm session > > > selection? > > > > The below, inlined patch introduces the boot option "lowraminstall" which > > boots the computer directly into Ubiquity in a minimal X session. I would > > suggest sneaking this into Gutsy, as a hidden and unsupported possibility > > for those who need it. If people are happy with it, the extra line in the > > boot menu in isolinux.cfg can be added in a later version. > > For the record, this was since merged by Evan as the 'only-ubiquity' > boot option.
Will this be a boot option? I remember the live-xforcevesa option (undocumented) which would solve the problems of anyone with VIA (and some others) cards that didn't work at all with ubuntu at that time and no one was aware of it. I found it by sneaking into xorg's files... -- [] Alexandre Strube [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
