On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 13:57 +0100, Melv Bailey wrote: > Just seen Alan Bell's post and he has mentioned something no one else > has, there is meant to be a failsafe X in low res mode. I didnt know > that and have not in 4 years seen that mentioned before. Has anyone > else ever seen Ubuntu boot in this failsafe mode? What is meant to > trigger this mode? > > If it just worked then my son could do it but 4 out of 4 failures meant > for me it didnt just work. >
Hi Melv I feel for you! I don't have it now, but a few releases ago my PC wouldn't boot Ubuntu after an update to a new release. The monitor just complained of the wrong resolution. I took a lot of messing with the Xorg config files to get it to work. Worse still, my upgrade from Maverick to Lucid resulted in an unbootable system except to a command line console with an old kernel - I had to re-install. None of these things make me confident enough to recommend anyone to swap from the Windows they use now to Ubuntu - even if Windows is performing badly. Yes, I did report these as bugs. No, I didn't get anything out of the bug reports to lead me to think this will result in an improved Ubuntu experience. Tony -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
