In my case, the upgrade to 8.04 after the installation of 7.10 went well. The display driver selected in xorg.conf is 'vesa'.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Peter Belew<abcru...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have just installed Ubuntu 7.10 on this system. On starting the > installer, I specified the screen resolution as 1024x768x24. The > installation went well, though this system is slow by today's > standards. > > Now I am doing an online upgrade to 8.04 LTS. I'm not sure what driver > was selected. In the morning I will see whether this works properly, > but I expect this will succeed. The important thing here is that the > 7.10 install creates an xorg.conf file, which is recognized by the > later systems, eliminating boot-time probing for display hardware, > which fails with a number of display card/monitor combinations. (I > have filed several bug regarding various displays on a few different > machines, with similar problems). > > Earlier today I helped a friend install 7.10 with an upgrade to 8.04 > LTS on a much more powerful system which also would not boot 8.04 or > 9.04 live/install CDs. The install and upgrade were successful except > for a problem updating network-assistant at the end of the upgrade > (for which he filed bug #412229). > > In my opinion, allowing manual preselection of screen resolution in > the boot line, which was available in releases like 6.06 and 7.10, > should be restored in all future releases. It seems to have saved the > day on this system. > > I'll update this report again when the upgrade finishes (with our > without glitches). > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Bryce > Harrington<br...@bryceharrington.org> wrote: >> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) >> Status: New => Confirmed >> >> -- >> Xorg won't start on PC with ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411164 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of the bug. >> > -- Xorg won't start on PC with ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411164 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
