On 14/10/10 06:27, Traveller wrote:
My experience installing 10.04 does not support this claim, Alan. In my
case, on a system with on-board nVidia graphics, X not only failed to
start, the monitor went to sleep after claiming "No input". Fortunately
for me, I still had a working WinXP available, and I was able to learn
that this was a known issue, and the solution was to select "nomodeset"
from F6 before commencing installation. I must say, though, that I was
very pleased with the Maverick installer. Not only is this the first
release since 9.04 that has actually got my wifi working straight away,
but the INSTALLER actually found the wifi and downloaded updates on the
fly! Made me very happy! Now if I can just get the sound to work the way
I want it to...
Traveller
Here is the spec where the failsafe X was designed:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BulletProofX
Here is the testing procedure and bug reporting instructions for
failures of the failsafe X mode
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Testing/Failsafe
Here are the 13 open bugs against failsafe
http://ubunt.eu/9a
The #ubuntu-x IRC Channel is where people interested in improving X on
Ubuntu tend to be, but your first port of call should be #ubuntu-uk.
This is where overall quality testing of Ubuntu on different hardware
takes place
http://qa.ubuntu.com/testing/
There are lots of different nvidia cards, there are lots of different
monitors, there is crappy hardware that misreports it's capabilities and
comes with Windows drivers that work around known defects in the
hardware. I used to have a laptop with nvidia graphics, it worked fine
for me until the hinges snapped, my current hardware has Intel drivers
which basically worked out of the box, however there is a bug on the VGA
output causing an instability in the signal, that is bug 614238 which I
am subscribed to, have commented on and is being tracked upstream at
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28306. At some point that
will get fixed, in the mean time I am using the HDMI output with a
converter to DVI and I have a rock solid display on the external monitor.
Alan.
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